There are numerous reasons why I chose the above image to be the front cover of my album, firstly I loved the natural landscape and feel that this is an effective image. Equally, it was important for me to have my artist featured heavily on the front cover as this ensures the focus is on the artist and not purely the scenery, this is also a convention of the music genre and massively popular artists such as Justin Bieber and Adele always have themselves on their albums. The image ties in with my music video, the shot was taken the same day that I filmed my video and I feel that this helps create a sense of unity amongst the video and digipak. This image required editing within Photoshop as is detailed in my previous posts but this allowed me to get the font exactly right. The font and colour of my text reflect the soft, classic colour scheme throughout my digipak I feel, and this is carried across to my music video titles as well.
The above image shows the acknowledgement spread of my digipak. The image is a classic natural shot which is in keeping with the conventions of the classical music genre, but has been edited slightly to bring out the shadows and light to keep the image interesting. This image originally had sheet music layered over the top but I removed this as I felt that it wasn't in keeping with the themes of my digipack. For the writing on this page I used the same classic font to keep the unity, and researched the inside of digipaks extensively to ensure that my writing reflected that of a true album. I looked at acknowledgement pages by artist such as Beyonce, Pink Floyd and Tyga - all from different genres of music.
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Ultimately, the same types of acknowledgements were made, and these are what I replicated in my digipacks. It is important for the artist to acknowledge record producers, co writers, studio directors exct. to ensure all due credit is given and to avoid disputes - therefore this page is entirely dedicated to doing this and to prohibiting copyright to ensure that my product is authentic.
This image shows the second double page spread of my digipack. I have used this image for numerous reasons, when researching other digipacks it became evident that there are often subsequent images of the artist in the booklet, such as Rihanna's 'Loud' digipack which features a 6 page spread of herself. Therefore in order to make my digipack as realistic as possible, I mimicked this convention of having the artist featuring heavily throughout the digipack, to reinforce and further his image. Equally, I like how artistic the shot is, the contrast of light and blurred background give the head and shoulder shot a crisp look. I am able to have the image in black and white as I have used black and white filters within my video, thus this creates a sense of synergy across my products. In having the artist staring into the camera I feel there is a connection built up between artist and audience and this matches the writing that I paired this page with. I have used a traditional thank you page to thank the label, manager of my artist and fans, I finished the page with a signature to add to the personal feel of the page and help build a rapport with my fanbase.
The above image shows the back cover of my album. I used this image as the naturalistic imagery matches the themes throughout my digipack and seems to match the album cover especially. The image is ideal for my back cover given the natural framing, which allowed space for the track listing in the middle of the image. I have matched the font colour and style to that of the rest of my digipack to add continuity to the image. Lastly, I used Photoshop to lift images that were not mine such as the record label logo and bar code, these images were vital to adding authenticity to my product as these are found on every digipack that I researched. I also created a declaration using the text tool, as I found during my research it is imperative to prohibit illegal filesharing to protect the rights of the artist on the back cover of the album. Overall, I am pleased with how my digipack looks as I have researched the conventions of the genre thoroughly and have replicated certain elements to ensure that my product looks as real as possible.
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