Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Inside Covers- First Draft

I wanted my digipak to flow throughout and so I contemplated using the same background but felt that the purple became too bland and boring to be used over four covers. I had noticed this convention in other digipaks such as Arctic Monkey's Favourite Worst Nightmare, where the image of the house and its graphics continue from covers one through to three. However in order to keep some semantics flowing in my own, I used similar cartoon effected images, as well as keeping the musical notes portrayed across the front cover into the inside ones. I wanted to reinforce the idea of the importance of music to the band. This is shown below:

I further reinforced the importance of music for the band by placing a coloured heart on a white image. This catches the eye of the audience but also highlights the strong love the artist feels for the music. I recieved inspiration of this image from Kanye West's 808's and Heartbreak digipak cover, where Kanye also uses the almost cartoon like heart on his own image. The background itself contrasts the dark purple of the front cover and so when the buyer opens their digipak it will be a shocking surprise.
For the second inside cover, I stuck with the same background again to make it flow, along with the musical notes that have continued from over the page. This gives off the feeling of continuity. The speech bubble that again contains the musical note theme reflects conotations of a comic book, which as mentioned before I wanted to maintain throughout the entire product. The image however, is not a cartoon. I have used the blue effect to create an oddness that fits in with the surreal colour of the background. The female artist is looking straight at the camera, therefore connecting with her audience with her eyes.

1 comment:

  1. Totally unconnected this! Sorry! Hi. Sorry to interrupt. I'm trying to get followers for

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