Inspiration for Digipak and Poster.

This video is an example of what has been done previously which is similar to my poster and digipak. The use of the single line drawings make the video stand out to an extent. It also highlights the video as it is wire framed, so that it looks quirky, retro and different.

Due to these albums (H.I.M and Architects) having plain backgrounds and line logos onthem, they influenced me into what I would use for my digipak as they are all from the same genre of music and they have all been well recieved. The logos are seen as a symbol of their music and are linked in with the music that they perform, this is the same in my digipak as I used the cross to link in with the name of the album "There is a hell" aswell as the buildings/shapes coming up from the bottom of the digipak and poster, this connotes hell and everything that might be coming up from it.These three albums focus on a main image in the middle which are quite simple but still really effective due to the plain background and mainly plain colouring of the cover.
Overall, all of these contributed to my ideas as I really liked the idea of just something really plain, yet it is easy to see that it has been made for a metal band. I am glad that I chose the plain style as it is easily identifiable that it is a metal album and a lot of the target audience will like it. As I am technically a part of the target audience I would say that if I saw a band with that album cover on I would definitely know that it came from this genre and that I wouldn't have a problem with it, and the artwork would probably encourage me slightly to buy the album.

The development of my completely new style for my Digipak and Poster.

Final Digipak and Poster

Digipak Cover Analysis (Bring Me The Horizon)

Draft Digipak.

A selection of CD covers





Rest Of Digipak

Digipak Back Cover / Song List

Digipak Cover

Primary Album Cover Trial x2

Primary Album Cover Trial.

Digipak Photos.

Tonight (02/10/13) I plan to go to Catthorpe Manor and take photos at sunset of the Forest and the Lake. These shall hopefully be used in my digipak, if not then I shall take photos of the band when I meet with them over the next few weeks.

Fonts for my Digipak

Due to me not liking my preliminary font of my album cover, I decided that I was going to look into the different fonts that I could include.

Inspiration For Album Covers

I found this image from http://deroy.dropmark.com/82004 which is a website which is about simplistic and geometric shapes on album covers.

 I chose the idea of looking at geometric shapes from this Enter Shikari album cover as it is their symbol for their current album and I thought that it might be a good idea for me to do this as it is a recognisable trade mark for the specific album.

I typed into google 'Forests' and found this image, I chose this one because of the dark connotations behind the low lighting. I am planning on recreating this for my album cover by taking the image at sunset to hopefully get some backlighting with interesting colours.

 

I used the font / text alignment from this Bring Me The Horizon album cover as I felt that it would work well with the other aspects that I have got. I also like the transparancy of the text as it enables the background image to stand out more.

 

 

I am planning on recreating this album cover that I made on PhotoShop but with my own images which I plan to take tonight (02/10/13). I shall also work on the text font and which one I may use because I am uncertain about this one as it does not work as well as I had hoped it too.