Digipak construction

Digipak construction

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  Front Cover We tookone of the images from the digipak shoot at the car park location. In photoshop we then changed the brightness and contrast to create an almost silhouette of Patryk, which we used as the image for the front cover. We chose this image as Patryk is looking over the edge and is in deep thought, which goes with the digipak flat plan. We also reshot the digipak to get this lighter image as feedback from our rough cuts told us it was too dark and hard to see. We decided to change the font on the digipak to make it simpler, therefore easier to read. We made the colour slightly darker to fit in with the tone of the song.
• 2.
  We then addedthe name of the artist “Patryk Baran”. We did change his artist name from his initials to his full name, to fill up more space on the digipak and not have it bare and full of empty space. I then added the explicit content symbol that appears on other front covers of albums when there's swearing in the songs, such as Eminem and Nicki Minaj.
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  Back Cover For theback cover we used this image which is a slightly darker than the front cover to give some contrast but still using the same colour scheme. We enhanced an image in photoshop to make the blacks and the shadows to stand out more. We then added the album name on the back in white to stand out against the darker background. Used the same font to create a consistent and cohesive brand.
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  We kept thesame anti theft warning on the digipak but made it black and white to suit the theme of the digipak. We then added the track list, which is different to the one used on the flatplan and the rough cut. We did this because after looking at a variety of digipaks for hip hop/ rap artists. The tracklist is often has a different colour for the number and the letters, making it easy to read the different tracks, and it made it look more like a professional product than the rough cut.
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  CD Panel Initially wekept the same information on the cd panel and changed the font to match the other panels. But then we decided to add an image on the actual CD itself, to make it seem less empty We added this image. We did this by placing the image on the CD, then using the quick selection tool we highlighted the CD and then inverting the selection, then pressing delete, which deleted the image around the CD. The picture didnt quite fit, so we had to use the
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  brush tool andfill in the bottom area of the cd using the same colours in the image. We then changed the colour of the album to make it readable. Inside Panels For the inside panels we used a variety of image taken at the photoshoot. We went into photoshop and edited them to make them black and white, to fit in with the rest of the digipak. I decided not to have text on all of them, as in the rough cut there was too much text and it was unreadable, which was taken focus away from the images themselves. Each image used has a different expression and a different angles which all matches with the tone of the song.
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  We added textto this panel as the image was quite empty. At first we put the definition of fear, to make to digipak correlate to the song. However there wasnt enough words in the definition to fill up the space. Therefore we used the same thank you message we used in the rough cut and made the text wrap around Patryk, to make it appeal more professional. We used black instead of the red as it was hard to read the text in that colour.