This is the first draft for part of my subsidiary products, the digpak. Starting with the front cover, this was a photograph that I took the other day of Blossom. I decided to use this photo as the album cover because I thought that it looked really professional, also the clothes that she is wearing suit the rock genre, with just a baggy shirt. This gives of the impression that she doesn't care about what she looks like, and it also gives her the scruffy type of look, relating back to the rock genre again. The colour of the shirt however are pinks and reds, which are bright and happy colours, giving connotations of the pop genre to my artist. I think that front cover is the strongest point of my full digpak, because it looks the most professional. Throughout the digpak, I kept a certain colour scheme running through it, which is pastel pink and black. These colours were chosen on purpose to reflect both styles of my genre. I also find that the pink is quite girly, which tells the audience that Blossom is not all rock and roll, that she actually is also quite feminine. I really like the fonts that I have chosen on the front cover, and would like to stick to these in the future when making my final product. The font of the name 'Emilia' is scruffy and rough, suiting the rock genre, were as the song title 'Still into You' is in a light and calm font, suiting the pop genre.
Onto the back cover of my digipak, I feel that this is the weakest point of the whole digpak, as it doesn't look very professional. It looks very bland and plain. From doing this, it has shown me that plain back covers in fact do not look very professional, and I find that it is nothing to look at. This has given me the idea to take an actual photograph of Blossom and use that as the whole of the back cover, but I do not want it to be too overwhelming, as it will give the audience too much to look at. In mind, I had the idea of Blossom wearing the same shirt, in her Dr Martins facing away from the camera on a huge field, with her arms spread high as if she is flying. I feel that this would be a effective back cover to the album because it is flowing with the front cover photo, linking the whole album in, and her position that I want her to stand in looks as if she wants to fly away, or that she is head over heels, linking to the album title 'Still into You'. To do this, I will be organizing a photoshoot throughout the week. The fonts on the back cover are also very weak. They are too plain, and do not really have any similarity to the other two fonts that I have used on the digipak. In my next draft, I will stick to a font that matches the other two. The fact that I have used a barcode and and music label logo on the back I think looks professional and gives the album realism and verisimilitude to other albums that i have looked at.
On to the CD's, I really like the colour that I have chosen to do them in, because it flows with the rest of the album, making it look neat and not all mismatched. I coloured the CD's on Photoshop with the tool 'paintbrush'. This didn't turn out to be as easy as I thought it would be, and it ended up looking not as neat and professional as I wanted it to be. Due to this mistake, I will be looking for another tool to use in order to make this neater. Other than that, I think that my design on the CD's look like any other CD, with the artists name and their song. I decided to include an acoustic CD on my digipak because I wanted to keep linking it in with the pop rock genre. Acoustics are very popular with rock genre albums.
Moving onto the inside of the album, I found this picture on Google Images, as it is only a draft. I chose to have the inside cover as light pink roses. This is because I feel like the roses tie in the album name, relating to love. Instead of choosing red, I chose pink because again I wanted to keep the colour flowing throughout my digipak, and I feel that I established this very well. When moving onto my next draft, I will not be using a photo from Google Images. Instead, I will be using a photo of my own. I had in mind taking a ECU photo of Blossom smelling pink roses, which I will have to buy from the shop, or if not roses, pretty flowers of the same colour, as roses may be hard to find. This photo would be effective because it shows Blossoms feminine side, giving off the look of the pop genre to the audience.
Lastly, the spines of the album cover. I kept these simple because I found that it would be too much to look at, as it is so small. The background colour of the spine I chose to be black, keeping with the colour theme, and to have my artists name 'Emelia' and the album name 'Still into You' in the pastel pink colour, with the colour theme. I like these spines because they are simplistic, but link in with the album, like everything else on the album cover.
To improve next time, I will be taking some more photographs to include on the back cover and on the inside cover of my album. I will be re thinking the fonts and layout on the back cover as well, as I feel like these do not flow very well and that it looks untidy. I will also be finding another way to paint the background of the CD's and the paintbrush tool is too messy and not neat enough.
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