DigiPak Planning-Photos

Not that we have a few shots, we have planned to make our DigiPak. We have decided to use the following photos

Digipak Comparisons

We have created out front cover of our digipak, shown below

To make sure this is sticking to our genre, we decided to check other bands pictures for referencing and clarification.

Below is our results

Blink 182 also used a black in white style with a plain background. They have also used a wall in a similar style to ours.



Although Panic! at the Disco have used a colour picture, they have used suits and ties as attire, similar to our own attire throughout the video and the DigiPak

Using Photoshop to edit our photos

When we tried to capture our main photos for our poster and digipak, we came across a few complications, including a conflict with brihgtness and sun exposure. To help conflict these problems, we decided to start using photoshop. I have had some experience with photoshop in the past, but nothing past creating simple images using basic tools. To improve our photos, we needed to remove shadow effects, as well as make the photo seem natural.

We first started by using the eyedropper tool to mimic the colour of the background, and try to blur the shadows into a similar colour to the background, however, the eyedropper tool was not advanced enough to mimic the texture of the wall, therefore only mimicking the colour slightly, and creating too much of a smudge effect, making it look like someone had drawn on it. This was undesirable, as the picture looked extrememly unprofessional.

We then decided to use the rectangular marquee tool to section a piece of the background off and try to fade it onto the shadow, making it look

Album Cover Photoshoot

Today we took a variety of  shots for our album cover, in uniform, to see how they looked. We were quie impressed with the results.

However, the sunlight was a big problem in the photos, as the shine distorted the colour, and made it look unprofessional. To combat this, we plan to change the pictures into black and white on photoshop.

Here are the pictures...

Ancillary poster designs- Test shots

After our research, we decided to take a few test shots, mimmicking the previous work of bands of our genre, in order to establish what worked for us and what didn't.

In this picture we are mimmicking one of Panic at the Disco!'s latest posters. We both decided that the picture was really effective, and worked really well combined with the background.

A close up of the picture

We also took some imitation photos, such as the one below, to establish if mimicking the band worked or not

Digipak StoryBoard

Now that we have finished our music video, we can start work on the ancillary tasks. We have jotted down some ideas for the digipak.

Finished Music video