Final Digipak

Digipak

As one of our ancillary tasks, we need to create a digipak. We have to decide on what kind of look we want it to have, what to put on it, how it should fit together and also, who should be involved in making it.
To help us decide on these factors, we need to do a bit of research.
A digipak includes the front cover of a CD case. This usually consists of an image of a random object, instrument, person or animal. Solo singers are also shown on their albums, however, rarely is a band. This is due to the band being avaliable at different times and also as bands usually have a particular logo to represent them. For example, avenged sevenfold have the death bat, and metallica have a particular font of which their name is always written.

In the album cover below from the Kaiser Chiefs, the band has not been used. A simple snake skin background has been used with a tab that has the name of the band and album on it. The edges are tatty and it made to look like an old box lid. It says in small font 'a box of tricks' From this I would used the idea of a basic cover. I like that the cover simply says who it is by and what it is called. I don't think I would use the box idea but I would perhaps encorperate some ideas of my own.

In the cover below, again the band has not been used. However, unlike the one above, it is not just simply words. This time an icon has been used. The butterfly is a bright image which can represent the brightness and energy of the band. It also presents some sort of innocence, perhaps suggesting that it is not has hard as some forms of rock music. I like the idea of the butterfly but I don't think I would use it within our song. This is due to our band being all guys and this adding a slightly feminine feel to it.

Band shots

Originally, we had preferred the idea of using the band on the front cover. This would just make it that bit more personal to us. While we were at our venue doing the filming, we took the time to take some photos. However, our band had a lot of trouble standing still and there were hardly any photos of them that aren't blurred.

For this reason, we decided not to use them on the front cover.

Cover Ideas

For our ancillery tasks we have to create a digipak and a magazine advertisement. For this we needed to come up with various things which we could put on the cover. Our ideas were:

Using the bands driving licenses and putting them together to make a square. The part that says 'driving license' would be changed to 'dancing license'.

Another is to get a model to wear a t-shirt saying 'license to dance' with them dancing. We haven't decided whether to have the whole model or just their torso so it is easier to read.

We also could use a silhouette of a dancer in negative or black and white with a bright colored writing over the image.

We also had the idea of using a crowd at a gig as it would show the mayhem and fun which we wanted to portray.

Cover Ideas - Licenses

For our album front cover, we had many ideas. Our favorites were either having the band, or as the song is licence to dance, using some form of licence. As part of this idea, we thought about taking each band member's driving licence and putting them together like a square. We discovered that the drummer of the band had no passed his test so only had a provisional, but we decided that this may have a nice effect.
Before we got the pictures of the band, I decided to take an example licence from the internet and see how easy it would be to change it from a 'driving licence' to a 'dancing licence'. This is how I did it.

First I pasted the original picture from google.

I then zoomed in and selected the 'NC' from 'licence'.

I then copied it and placed it within the word 'driving'.

After this I cut out the 'I' and moved the 'D' over and replaced the background with a patch of pink that was around the writing. I think drew a rough outline of where the 'A' needed to be.

I then found the closest matching font and pipetted the colour from the 'D'. I then placed the 'A' in the space.

I zoomed back out and this was my finished product.

Overall, it wasn't too hard to make but I will have to try doing this with a provisional which may not be as easy.