Here is draft 3 of our digipak, we received feedback from our peers of what genre they thought it was.

indie ////////////

rock

pop

grunge

rap

Edm /

Psychedelic rock /

Most people guessed indie which means the conventional features we used display the indie genre and we used the right repertoire of elements in our digipak.

Here is my blending template which I have used in photoshop to make my images for my digipak.

As you can see I have adjusted  Layer 2 to a shade of green which suits my indie genre, Iv’e used the blender tool and use the setting screen set at 100 percent. Blending layer 2 and DSC_0001 together to make the nice light turquoise in my photographs. I have used the same colour and same bender with different images and different brightness settings to make a similar photo fto put towards my digipak.

Here are the first designs for the two panels, they are not particularly interesting or exciting.

Here are the new and improved 2nd draft of the first 2 panels.

What we improved

• We have changed the fonts to fit our genre more
• We flipped the image of me
• Changed the image of Brandon
• Added different coloured lines and put boxes around them
• changed the image of Brandon to a more fitting one of our indie genre.
• Added a better bar on the right of the back panel

Targets from teacher summarised

• Don’t use 2021 add the publisher logo
• make spines different colour
• Concept is good
• Scale Ben bigger
• Ambient dreams comes down and use the yellow from T shirt
• Use better picture of Brandon
• Ben has glasses Brandon has hat
• Change font
• Make middle look more cartoony
• Toilet, crisp packets for theme of concept art
• put dull yellow as spines

By analysing this feedback will help me to improve my next draft of my digipak.

Self assessment from assessment criteria

• Camera is used well for first image to make engaging image for our star image but not in second image.
• Costume design is well done and fits genre
• Lighting is good and gives of a very chill and indie vibe
• Background is plain and simple which is maybe what we don’t want for this genre although it does look organic.
• Text is a bit bland in front panel, but text in back panel works with genre and looks good.
• Colour works for our indie genre and our brand package and works well to show integrated advertising

Targets for improvement

• Scale images bigger
• change album name
• Try and find better image of Brandon
• Find another photo of me as it to pixilated

Here is our contact shoot for our first shoot from our digipak

Shoot went well we got some great images with a variety of lighting angles and distance shots. Im not happy with some of the quality of the shots as they become pixilated when enlarged only slightly. Some of the images aren’t great and some are even out of focus as it took me a while to find the right camera settings for my camera. The lighting was very bad in some of the photos as the ISO wasn’t adjusted right in comparison with the F stop.

Here is our Production meeting agenda for our digipak shoot it shows what we will need to bring to the shoot and what hazards may occur. This helps us to plan and prepare to make a good and productive shoot.

Here is our Dp mock up for our digipak it is a visual plan that shows us what conventions we are going to need to make our digipak. We have labelled each section that is need in making some good album art. For example the album name, the year of the album, the band name, the barcode and the copyright issues.

By making this DP it will help us make our digipak as we know which conventions are needed to convey our indie genre to the audience. From this indie colour pallet we also know what colours we are going to use for costume and in post editing to make an indie digipak.

Here is our mission statement which describes our target audience and how they engage with the star, are competition, our USP and our band and who they are and what to expect in their next upcoming album.