Progress of Digipak

As well as producing a music video, we also need to produce a website and digipak of our band. Here i am going to describe the processes i have been through with my digipak. I have created a front cover, back cover and inside cover for my band.

Above is the template i have used to help me produce my digipak, i got the template of the Internet by simply typing in "digipak template" i chose this template because it had the dimensions on it which made is a lot easier to measure up to.

Above this is my inside cover, to begin with i wasn't sure as to what an inside cover should contain, i have never really looked at them in much detail and so took a guess as to what should be on it. I have done some photo shopping on this image which i plan to describe in my next post. My original idea was to have just the band name on the inside cover, however after getting my peers, teacher and doing some research myself i realised this didn't fit in with the usual conventions. This can be seen in the first image. I then thought that maybe i should put a message to my fans as this is something all young girls and fans would appreciate and it would also seem like a personal touch from the band, this is the idea i have went with and this can be seen in the second image. Doing this i felt made the band seem fun and would really appeal to our target market.

The 2 above images are my ideas for the front cover. I wanted to have the title of the band in the blank area to the left of us because it would make a statement and nothing would be distracted from this. I chose this photo for the digipak because we was all holding the same position and therefore made us seem like a proper girl band. I thought pink text would work well as it would stand out and would also fit in with what our target market would like as well as the website as this was also pink. All the original ideas i had for the front cover i feel worked well and so the only change i made was the size and boldness of the title of the album to make it clearer what the name of the album was.

Above are the images and stages i went through when completing the back cover of my digipak. On most Cd's the titles and track number can be seen all along one side either the right or the left. I tried to follow this convention on my back cover but it didn't work as well as i had hoped because half of Alice's body was covered and you couldn't see the songs properly, therefore making it look unprofessional. One of my peers then suggested i had the song and track numbers at the top instead if the size, although this wasn't the usual was track lists were listed i had seen this on other albums before and so thought i would give it a go. This i felt worked much better then my original idea because there was a blank space at the top and so none of our body's would be covered in text. I decided to add a "~" between each song so our fans could see what each song was called, this i felt also made the back cover look more professional as i hadn't used any numbers. I then added a bar code and the Virgin records label on to the cover to make it seem more realistic. I felt something else was missing at this point and had a look at Cd's to see what else was on the back cover to see they had something written about copyright on there. Although you cant see it in this image i have also included a copy right protection statement to make the back of my CD look as professional as possible.

I have described the changes and stages i have been through for my front cover, back cover and inside cover until finally i was satisfied with what i have produced.