Final Advert And Digipak

This is my final digipak and advert, it took me a while to do but I'm quite impressed with the outcome considering the amount of time it took me to do it. Doing the cd took the most amount of time as there's loads of detailing on it and I had to photoshop the background of each logo and change the colour to a creamy yellow colour. It was hard to change the colour of some of the logo signs as it wasn't very clear while I was selecting the sections I wanted to paint. I wanted to keep the cd simple with the colours so i used black and cream as it ties in well with th images used.

Editing Process Of My Advert And Digipak

For my advert and digipak I used a YouTube video to create the effect I used for my images. The video helped guide me through each step as I wasn't quite sure how to do professional edit on photoshop. I first tried the edit on the digipak front cover image and thought it looked really good to I  applied the effect on all the other images I used to keep it consistent and flow well. I took screen shots of the process of me editing the images, I didn't do a screen shot of every step as there was quite a bit of steps to take and I didn't really remember. 

My Digipak CD and front cover mock

initially i didnt plan to have text all over the front cover of my digipak but for some reason Photoshop didn't let me colour in the font so I tried out to see how it will look with text all over it. I asked a few people what they thought and they actually liked it so I thought I might as well keep it like this as people like it.

Chosen Font

This is the chosen font I decided to use for my digipak and music advert. I got it from 1001 fonts just like other fonts we chose. Me and Julius didn't realise we had to do the digipak and advert separately, we shared ideas and come up with the name Vincent De La Reyes together so we both used the name as it wouldn't be fair if one of us used it and not the other. We changed the artist name to Vincent De La Reyes because we wasn't too sure if the name Julius had a flow to it or sounded professional and suitable for out music genre. 

Potential Font Designs

These were the fonts Julius and I were considering to use for our digipak that we got from 1001 fonts. We chose a different variety to see which one we prefered the most. I thought the first one was a bit too bold for a pop/rock albulm and the second looks more sutable for a classical album. Julius liked the third one quite a lot but I wasn't so sure as it looked a bit more fancy as I wanted to keep it simple. I did  a bit more research as I wasn't too sure on the font styles we found.

Photographs For Digipak And Advert

These are some of the images I was considering in using for my digipak and advert that I took of Julius and the location using a HD Nikon camera.

Digipak Mock

This is a mock of mine and Julius’s digipak. We've taken loads of images for our digipak already but not sure which ones we are going to use but we do have faint ideas. However, we are going to take more images so we have more of a variety to choose from. For the front cover we had an idea of using an image of him looking away into the distance to suggest that he’s missing the actress from the video and it’s like he’s looking fro her. It also connotes that he’s a serious singer and he cares more about the singing and lyrics instead of how he looks. On the back we thought of having an image of Julius on the rule of third to make it look more interesting instead of just in the middle. It also allows a clear space for the song lists on the other side and obvious the barcode and texts and logos will go on the bottom right. On the inside of the digipak, instead of using another image of Julius we are going to use a close of the guitar and flowers on top as we used these props in our video and it emphasises the genre because of the use of guitar. Me and Julius had a different idea for the CD but we are going to test both ideas first before making a final choice. Julius thought of having an image behind the CD and when you take it out you will be able to see it and the CD to be plain. But I thought it will look quite cool if we have the image behind the CD as well as it being printed on the CD so the CD is like a puzzle and completes the image but the image will also be on the back too. The picture below is an example of something that I mean but I want the image inside the digipak to be the same as the CD not the front cover image.