Final Digi Pack

     

 Front Cover & Spine.

                                               Back Cover.

Disc.

 Disc background/inlay, inlay booklet front cover, inlay pouch.

Final Inlay Booklet

   

Magazine Advert Ideas & Conventions

For our magazine advert to look as professional and authentic as it could be our group decided that we need to incorporate the following into it; the title of the album, the image of the album, reviews, the Artists website, a design similar to the Album, links to purchases places, ratings, an image of the artist, CD logo and a selection of cross media platforms. These are the common features of all magazine adverts.

The common conventions of Indie Adverts are normally that they have the appearance of being designed with a vintage feel and artistically which overall tends to be quite simple but creative. I believe that an image such as a photo of the artist with a vintage tint would really show that it is from this genre, which is used mostly in Indie. There is often a link to the Artists website or their twitter accounts so they can be easily connected with the artist. 

The two types of magazine advert are either artist or album focused adverts; meaning as our artist is still not hugely well known and is still very independently run, our advert will be artist focused. Our advert must link with the Digi pack and relate to each other, at best they can.When choosing the right image, font and content for our magazine advert, it is important we include and take into account the content above.

Overlay Editing - Inlay Booklet Front Cover

To improve our images to make them seem more professional and artistic, our group decided to experiment with overlaying the image for the front cover of our inlay booklet. This added depth to the images and I found the technique added a unique and different feel to it.

The Process...

 - 1. We put the image we wanted to use as a base layer/image on Photoshop.

 - 2. We then created a copy of this layer, which also enhanced the colour slightly.

 - 3. We then selected the image we wanted to overlay onto the image and placed it on top of the original image and then selected the soft overlay option.

 - 4. Next we added a blue filter to it.

 - 5. Then an additional creamy filter.

 - 6. Then adjusted the brightness and contrast.

Taking Digi Pack Photos

  

 In order to create our digipak, myself and Danny took a trip to take some photos. I thought it would be best (from research) that we capture the shots in a rural and natural environment as that is a well known element in the Indie genre. See http://nfgsannahigginson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/outdoors-guitar-urban-natural.html I took these photos with my digital Nikon D3100 which performed very well especially in the weather conditions as the photos didn't look as gloomy.

Indie Digipak Elements

From research and analysing various Indie digipaks, I have gathered together some conclusions of the elements that are used within their album covers.