Digipak - the inside

I have also been working on the inside/ leaflet section of my digipak. I researched this section of the digipaks within my earlier posts and know therefore that it is important for the inside of the digipak to grab the audiences' attention and provide more information and insight into the artist/ album. Traditionally, many artists would include photographs which match the album cover for the inside leaflet and include the lyrics for their songs over the top, however as my track is purely a piano track I have needed to be more creative and find alternative information to include in my digipak.  

The below image is a screen shot of the editing process using Photoshop to create my first double page spread for my digipak. I decided to include a double page spread which includes the sheet music for the track of my music video, I thought that this could be an effective way of drawing in fans as there is the opportunity for the fan to play the track themselves, and it also conforms to the feature of digipak albums - to look creative and promote the artist/ build up a fan base.

I have used a photograph I took whilst on location and filming the music video to feature as the background for my page, to ensure that there is a sense of uniformity. I like the image as it fits with the theme of my album front and back cover of nature and light, I edited the image using the curves tool to really bring out the silhouettes of the leaves on the tree in the style of one of the artists who inspired the look of my album - Kodaline.

The final image shows the finished product of my first insert to my digipak. In order to achieve this, I layered copies of the sheet music to the track on my original photograph. I used various different features of Photoshop such as pasting the sheet music to a new document, resizing it manually to fit the size of the photograph and then dragging and dropping them into the same image. To create the finished effect I significantly reduced the opacity of the music so that whilst the notes are visible, so to is the image behind, I also used the text tool to write the artists' name and album title on the page, I used a different font that I felt reflected the nature of the image to add some variety to my digipak. Overall I am very pleased with this image, as I believe that it reflects the conventions of the digipak genre, whilst being slightly different to the traditional layering of lyrics.