Digipak Research

For the first ancillary task, Jess and I decided that we would make a digipak cover for the song. This will relate to the music video and the cover will visually link to the theme of the music video.

We both share the same opinion of what kind of look the digipak cover will have because we both have the same vision of our music video and we know that the digipak must convey the same image as the music video. We decided that we wanted the cover to be quite dark and reflect the mood of the characters in the video.

From the digipak examples that we found during our research, we decided that we liked the idea of having a black background with white writing as it is easy to read and also gives a 'dark' and serious feel to the single. I do not think that we would use a black and white image on the front cover of the digipak as I think that this looks too serious and would not fit totally with the single.

We liked the idea of having the main characters on the front cover so that it would follow the house style of the rest of the products in relation to the single. We also like the transparent look that this image has; however we would want the image to be more transparent and also have the other main character kind of 'looking' over the other characters.

After more research, I managed to find a couple of better examples of what we wanted with the 'transparent' effect of the digipak front cover.

I think that the idea of having a transparent effect on the images and making them 'overlap' each other. The Jimi Hendrix cover (below) shows this idea well; we could use this idea for having his girlfriend looking over them.

To create the effect of the 'overlaying' images, we would have to take a few different photos for the digipak and the put them onto different layers and change the opacity of the images to create the transparent effect that we are aiming for.

I also think that this digipak cover is very effective as you can see a couple of people with a transparent effect and then also the image of the eye in the background gives the impression that someone is watching over them. This would be a better example of what our digipak cover would look like because there are lots of different layers and also the colours used on the cover are quite dark which is definitely the look that we wanted for our digipak.

I also researched covers which will have two different people on the front so that I could see what kind of pictures were on the front of these digipaks and so I could get inspiration for my own digipak cover.