sketch designs for digipak front cover and back cover

Front Cover Sketches:

                                                               Back Cover Sketches

Artist brand/image identity brain storm.

In class we did a practical group exercise where we watched each others music video and brain stormed ideas and things that we associated with our artists image. Above there is a picture of the brainstorm.

digi pack forms and conventions

Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. Digipaks usually consists of 4 sides but can consist of up to 6 or more. Whist digipaks have the same plastic trays as jewel packs they are considered much more time resistant and fashionable.

Digipak nets look like this: 

Digipaks casn have anynumber of faces. The most common number for a a CD digipak is 4 sides but for DVD's and still even CD's more can be added.

What do you usually find on the faces?

Front cover:

From looking at many album covers i can see that it is conventional for The artists or bands name and the album title to appear on the front cover of the album. The Album cover image also conventionally has some kind of link back to the artist so weather it be a picture of the artist which is usual if it a debut album or a picture or still image of something that relates back to a music video made by the artist or a track on the album.

Back Cover:

Usually on the back cover of a digipak you find a tracklist of all the song you can find on the album and a bar code so that the album can be perchised. Also usually the back cover will have some relation to the front cover so weather it just be a colour scheme of front or picture of the artist.

Inside cover

it is conventional to find a lyric booklet within the inside cover of a digipak.


CD tray

The CD tray is often made of plastic and behind it has some kind of image or design that relates to the artist of to the rest of the images on the digipak.

Editing Process

At the start of the editing process we had a lip syncing lesson with miss excel in order to show us how to sync our music with our footage. This lesson was obviously very helpful when it came to editing footage and lip syncing for ourselves.

After filming for the first time i was not at all happy with the footage i had produced. Whilst i had produced some good scenery shots to establish my setting and mise en scene, my lip syncing shots where very poor and there wasn't a lot to work with. But as i come to editing i ended up using some of the shots in my final production.

My story line played out by abigail and alex worked very well throughout my editing process, they way i filmed my footage allowed to me do little sequences of their action creating depth and interest in my piece.

It was suggested to us that we film our artist lip syncing the song all the way through as when i came to the editing process it would be easier. In doing this i found that this was really helpful and that once all the part where lined up on the timeline it was very easy to chop and chain through narrative shots and different lip syncing shots.

At the very end of my piece i chose to use and effect of fade to white to give my music video a finished feel.