Making the Digipak

To make my digipak, first of all I selected a still shot from my music video. This was particularly important because this image would go on to represent the artist and generally set the tone for the songs that the cover is promoting. In the end, I settled on a mid-shot of the artist where the mise-en-scene is particularly effective. For example, the location, costume and body language are all appropriate in relation to the genre.

 

 

When choosing my song, I immediately knew that the image would be crucial in promoting the artist and that a black/white colour scheme would be essential in doing this. With this in mind, after selecting my image the first thing I did was adjust the colour and contrast.

 

 

Because of the age of the song which I selected, I decided that it was important to indicate the context behind the song and artist around the time it was originally released as many of the lyrics are concerning this. After thoroughly thinking it through, I concluded that the best way to do this was to include relevant newspaper clippings on the back cover.

 

 

Like the front cover image, I manipulated the colour to ensure continuity throughout the digipak.

 

 

For the inside of the digipak, I used another still from the music video and an image of the 1990s Poll Tax Riot to make it more contextually interesting. After this I warped both images to make them particularly colourful - in doing this I make the overall image appear less monotonous. In relation to the font, I kept it simple and continued the 2 Tone colour scheme to make it bolder and to promote the record label.