Below is my first draft of my digipak. The bottom right is the front cover, the bottom left is the back cover and would include song names written to the left of the artist and the top is the insert with the CD on the right hand side and the left would be an insert for a leaflet containing artist information and the song lyrics which would have the same front and back covers that the digipak has to keep the consistent image. The images I have used I took of my friend as the artist was not available to do a photo shoot becuase of certain circumstances, so as a first draft I took some photos of my friend and would do similar shots to these for my final digipak but of Carly. I edited the photos I took of my friend so that it was just her on a solid background for both front and back covers. I also took a photo of lips and using Adobe Photoshop edited them by inverting the colour.
Feedback:
- The lips should be of similar contrast to the front and back covers and at the moment the contrast is very much different.
- Perhaps the background instead of being a solid grey it could fade in from one colour to another.
- The artist name is clear, easy to read font that stands out from the cover.
- The font style of the digipak name "reason to smile" is appropriate and can be read easy.
- Perhaps try a different ground possibly an open landscape.
Having read through my feedback I have already experimented with one of the ideas being the colour of the lips, again using Adobe Photoshop I have edited them so that they are of similar contrast to the existing digipak, as shown below using different layers and changing the brightness and contrast.
Below is an improved digipak draft of the new image of the lips.
The inside of the digipak will have the CD on the right and it will also have the lips on it so when it is placed in the digipak it will carry the image on of the lips. On the left hand side of the digipak will be an insert of a booklet which will contain a message and the background of the artist and with the lyrics of the songs on the CD the insert will be the same as the front and back covers of the digipak. On the back side of the digipak there is a spare space on the left hand side of the artist which has been left to list the tracks on the digipak.
It would be a useful activity to annotate and analyse your own designs in the same way you have looked at other artists'.
ReplyDeleteEvaluation of my first draft
ReplyDeleteI think the plain grey background makes the image of my friend on both the front and back covers stand out but im unsure about the yellow writing because I dont think it is the right colour nor font and I feel the colour should perhaps be slightly darker as the yellow seems to be a bit too bright but I also feel the font needs to be bigger and bolder and really stand out. I really like the lips on the inside cover as they are of similar contrast to the front and back cover backgrounds and I like how the only hing in colour is the bright red lips which really stand out. I also think te colour and font style of the digipak name needs to be different so again it looks good and is even more eye - catching.