Digipak

This is my front and back cover of my Album.


To create the front I used an old image I had taken at a party. My first step was play with the colours and edit the image so it suited the kind of effect common within my genre. As ive found in my Digipak research the images are often made to look retro and aged as we have been exploring with footage we have shot so far. The main focus/people in the image are often kept either fairly bright with a dark surrounds or in complete black and white. So therefore my finished image reflects these ideas.

The album title and band name I have incldued by using a kind of newspapaer print idea. This is feels works with the bold image as it draws attention which newspaper headlines aim to do. I also used this idea to reflect our conecpt being youth and representation of youth. Having been in the headlines frequently lately due to events such as the riots it almost makes fun of that and uses the newspapers headline style which is most commonly used to egrade youth in order to present it and advertise it in a postiive way. Almost an attempt to take representation of youth back in the hands of youth itself which would be our audience.

This is the back of my album cover and I have kept the muted tones and colours consistent. Again my text has been displayed in the form of newspaper cut outs which represent the idea of the youth constantly being headline news in a negative way. The image I have used is my own photograph, I painted a tattoo on the arm of a friend and took this photo. When taking this photo I kept in mind posture of the figure and hid the face to symbolise one of the concepts of our music video being hidden identity.  Another concept of our video is stolen youth and so with the track titles I decided to play on this for example 'Rum in the teacups' and 'Blind mans handcuff'. The image of the tattoo creates a kind of rebellious atmosphere which is another theme we have tried to focus on.

These are the images I have decided to use on the inside of my case. Fitting in with the muted colours I have used the same effect I used on the other image to create the worn out grey tone. I decided to use some of the stills from our video of the urban landscape because I felt the urban setting plays a large part in our video and adds to the symbolisation of youth.