Sunday, March 21, 2010

Digipak Cover Planning Stages

To begin my the planning stages to help me complete my final cover I have designed a rough layout of how it will look and what will feature where. On the front cover the image will dominate most of the cover. I have decided to place the artists name in the top right hand corner and the album name in the bottom left in bold font, as I have found this to be a conventional layout of a CD cover. Along the side I have also established the height and width of a real CD so that I can make sure I plan the layout according to the correct size.
On the back cover the image will not be so dominating as there is more information on the back of the cover. I have made sure to include all the conventional aspects of the back of CD cover in order for my product to have as much realism as possible.

Below are more detailed drafts of my final cover. All the text will stay the same, I will just have a real photographic image and also the background will be totally white, it has just come out this way becasue of shadowing and lighting when I took the picture of my drawing. As you can see I have stuck to the same layout I chose when making my first draft version as I think it works well by seperating the artists name and album title at diagnal ends of the cover as they both stand out. The writing overlaps the image a little but this is done for a purpose, it gives the cover a sense of togetherness/all in one, rather than being all mapped out as seperate aspects. If you look at other album covers text is more often than not overlapping the image, it is effective because as you read the text it draws you to the image and likewise if your drawn to the image it makes you want to read the text.

Below is the back cover to my digipak. It is self explanatory within the analysis I have included in the annotations. The only thing I would say again is that just to remind you the background will be a bright white in the fully edited version and the image will be a proper photographic image.


It is essential that I conduct these planning stages before rushing into creating my final front cover as it gives me an idea of what will work and what will not, the most effective layouts and any changes that I may want to carry out before continuing.

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