Photoshop !

Well I have just spent a good 2 hours of my life that I shall never get back trying to work photoshop, watching video's, experimenting etc. and I got no where! I was trying to edit my first draft a digipak and thought it would take no longer than 20 mins but its clear that picture editing is not my forte!


Here is a quick mind map and sketch of the digipak I was picturing:





Here are some examples of digipaks that I found online and some other blogs that feature their digipaks in order to get ideas, and these are what I found:

http://jduffystannes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/analysis-of-digipak-from-another-genre.html

http://jduffystannes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/analysis-of-digipak-from-another-genre.html

Katy Perry's digipak for Teenage Dream, I love the use of the candy themed disks.

Her Digipak, is extremely pop-py with the bright colours, candy themed discs and cover (to go with her most popular song and music video- California gurls) and the pictures of the artist suits the candy theme perfectly. I really like how it all ties together however how the pictures are uniquely different from one another.

Rihanna's album for Loud, I love the flowers on the CD's and the extended picture of Rihanna in the flowers.



I love the use of the Red, Navy and Beige/Pastel Pink colours in her album cover. The text and pictures themselves are all very simple and tie together nicely.  The album is overall very simplistic due to only 3 pictures actually being used, with the picture on the inside extending over the inside of the digipak. The text is very basic, slim and simple however it is a bit difficult to read at some points, especially the white writing at the back of the album, pictured above.





Her advertisement also is links with the album perfectly as she has used the same font, saturation and hues, this is the same look as in her music video's and reflects a shot in her music video.

One of my favourite digipaks that I have seen which was done by an a-level student is this one:

I love the Whole thing, its so simple but yet so beautiful! I love most, the tree outline with the picture in the bakground, is just so beautiful in my eyes. However I don't know how I would do something like that, that would make sense with our music video and therefore I will just have to look at it's beauty instead.

I also found a template so I can start on my digipak, with the right proportions etc.:






This blog is also very good, as it shows a detailed progress of the groups idea's: http://hattiesmusicvideo.blogspot.co.uk/