Digi-pack Front Pane

The front pane of our digi pack was done by Me. I was tasked with doing the entire front cover for our album and to do this i had to follow the conventions of the genre that we chose and also following the conventions of the Arctic Monkeys as well. The dimensions for the Front pane would be 600 x 537 pixels which is common among most Digi-pack front covers.

The first thing that I needed to do was to pick an Image for the Front cover, something that could be edited and changed in order to create the desired effect. Above is the Image that I selected for the front cover. I chose this picture because it shows the face in a manner that can be seen as related to the back pane. Also it follows the conventions of the Genre in that many use images and the Arctic monkeys specifically use faces in some of their album designs.

The Next thing that I needed to do was to make the Image Black and white. I did this because I had already created my back cover, which was also done in black and white, so in order to avoid contrast in colours i needed to make this pane black and white as well. Another problem at the moment is that the image size does not meet the size of the dimensions needed in order to accurately make the digi-pack.

In order to meet the dimensions that i needed the image would have to be made smaller. In order to do that. The original dimensions of the image were 4928 x 3264 pixels which was much bigger than the 600 x 537 pixels that I needed to make the digi-pack an accurate size. There may be some slight change to the original image in that it may be crushed or skewed slightly but I have done my best to try and reduce that. Even if there is it will be minimal and would be indistinguishable.

Lastly I added a simple logo which represents the band that we are using. The creative aspect of it may not be great but it does follow the conventions of the band which is the effect that I was going for. The font of the Text is American Typewriter which i chose because It looks like the kind of thing that would appear on the front covers of some album in the indie genre section.

The main thing that was achieved here was linking the front pane to the back. This is crucial because if they are not in some way connected then the overall product will not look right. The two inside panes will again be similar to the front as well in order to avoid any unnecessary contrast in design

Interviews

Above is our First interview in order to 

Here is Interview Number two

This Lesson...

This lesson I have been working on question 4 of my Evaluation. I have done this by Making a plan for it. The plan is basically a checklist which includes what I need to talk about in my Question, because I intend to do a Video recording of myself talking about the various Things that I have used.

Evaluation part 4 plan

Pre-production:

Websites: 

• Blogger
• Youtube- Research
• Wikipedia- Research
• Google- Search engine

Equipment:

• Camera- Video
• Camera- SLR
• Tripod
• Mac
• Headphones

Production:

Equipment:

• Camera - Video
• Camera - SLR
• Tripod
• Mac
• Lighting Studio
• Headphones

Websites:

• Youtube- Song Choice, play song

Post-production:

Mac Programs:

• Final Cut Pro- Editing
• Adobe Photoshop- Digi pack designing, Magazine Cover

This Post is used to give me a plan in order to make sense of what i need to say in my evaluation for question 4.

This lesson...

Today I have successfully been able to create and complete my Digi-pack front pane. In addition to this I Had to make sure the back pane was compatible with the back pane. I found that it was not so either the back or front pane needed to be slightly changed. I decided to focus on editing the back pane because there was not much I could do to the front due to the lack of things on it. Luckely the back pane wasnt a big task and the only thing that i really changed was the font on the back to American Typewriter. My evaluation was also Started.

Digi-pack Back pane

This lesson I have been working on my back pane.  As part of our overall 4 pane digipack. I first needed an image which we did a photo shoot with an SLR camera. I have done it step by step in order to give an overvieew of the process.

Above is the original image that was used in photoshop. I decided on this Image because one convention of  indie Album covers is to have images of people, back covers more specifically have have images in reverse so they will often feature the backs of peoples heads and in this case i wanted to continue with this. One problem with leaving the image as it is, is that the image size is too large in dimension size. The dimensions of this image are 4928 x 3264 pixels compared with the image size we decided on which was 600 x 537 pixels. So the image itself would have to be made smaller in order to make it fit.

Above is the Edited image. Firstly i adjusted it to the correct dimension in order to fit our digipack. This image uses the correct decided dimensions which were 600 x 537 .Then I decided that in order to create the desired effect I needed to black and white the image, similar to what was done to the Album Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What Im Not. This has created the image that I wanted. This was the basis for the entire back pane and now i could begin to Add the details that had to be put onto i tin order for the piece to look authentic.

This image is the same image as the ones above only now it has been given company information in the form of a Logo. The logo in the shot is firstly not a real company it is a company that has been invented for the purposes of this project only and was not intended to cop any previous company name. To the left of this text is an enlarged version of the Logo. Inspiration was drawn from the Logo for the clothes logo GUP and the three letter combination was drawn from real life record labels Like NME. The Barcode is also a crucial part of the design because we are selling this as if it were a real product so it would need to have this feature, because every other physical digi-pack would have one. For the most pare the Barcode is on the back so i decided to stay with the convention.

The next thing that needed to be added was the track listings. In order to accomplish this with great accuraccy Firstly somewhere we needed to put our song their and secondly, because it was an album we needed to put other tracks on their as well. This left me with a choice, Invent other song titles or use already existing songs from the artist of our choice. I decided with the latter because it would have been difficult to invent new song titles in the stile of the Arctic Monkeys because there is no common theme to draw upon and each song is different in subject to another. In order to pick the songs i found a list containing all their songs. The only thing that i wanted to avoid was putting songs together that were from existing Albums because this wouldn't have been quite a unique product if i did. There are a few songs that are from the same album but they are not an exact replica.

Lastly I made the decision to change the font of the Back pan from PortagoITC TT to American Typewriter. I decided to do this because I felt that it was a more appropriate font for our target audience, the original font was too big and bold for it to be believable for an Indie band. This was my decision to do this but I feel that it has payed off.

This Lesson...

This Lesson I was able to Design and Finish my Digi-pack back pane. Since we have allocated the digipack panes equally between two i am half way to doing my share of the digipack. After the front pane is done i will stop work on the digipack and allow Jack to do his half of the work. Only fair. Their is an issue with the screen grabs but hopefully i will have these done by the end of the week.