Analysis of Digi-Pak

The images above are my front cover and back for my album. I have named the album "See Me Through" as this is the song in which I have made my music video for. The song is actually names " You Got The Love" by Florence And The Machine, but in this circumstance the song is called "See Me Through" by Olivia Brooke. This is my artist that I have made.

I have tried to keep the album cover quite simple and emotional seeing as the lyrics are a very important factor for my whole music video. My music video listens to the lyrics and the story follows the lyrics and emotions of the song so I have tried to show that the album is emotional as well. The front cover shows the artist Olivia Brooke. Her eyes are down and you can just see her head. I have done this so it connects with the back of the album. On the back you can see half of the artists face and this time her eyes are open. This plays along with the concept of "see me through". The idea of 'seeing' has made me think of eyes and so I have made this a key feature of my album. As well as this, I have made the titles white and the back ground black, this is keep things simple and makes the text shows up very clearly and the songs are what is important to Olivia Brooke, not the way something is shown. 

These images are the original images. I have cropped them down to remove any fussy things such as shoulders and the outfit. This means the focus is all on the face and the emotion given from the face which is my intention.   

This is the image I have chosen for my CD and the back ground of the inner CD. This image was taken underwater and this gives a sense of tranquillity and peacefulness. I have made the image black and white to again create more focus on the artist. As well as this, you see little specks on the image which is a feature you get when taking images underwater. This makes the image seen nostalgic which can be seen as emotional.

Below is the original image that was in colour and so I have manipulated it by changing it to black and white to add emotion and show more detail of the image.

These images are used for the Side of the CD that I have created. Although this is a very small and minor detail of the CD I have still tried to keep it very in tune with the rest of the CD and it's theme. I have added a different image to change up the shapes a little bit. As this image is almost a side perspective and so is different to the rest of the images that are front on profiles. I have adds contrast to the image to make it seem darker and the light on her face in too pastel-like and the contrast adds abit more shadow to the face which almost looks as if she is hiding her face. This can add a sensitive feel to the CD which adds to the emotion.

Here I have thought about the features of the album and so added in credits and a bar code to make the album look more realistic. The credits say what the green album says but instead of Universal Island Records, I have made up Crank Music Productions to fill its place.

When needing to pick a font I found it difficult to chose between these options. But before coming  to these font I had a different idea. I found three different titles that I liked and I did some audience research by asking people which one was there favourite.

'I am trying to decide on which title to use for an album cover… Looking at these 3 titles how does each one make you feel or think of?'

When looking at the results I found that the second font was the most popular and being voted as the favourite one.  Then the first font came second and the third font came third (last). Reasons for this were that people thought the second font stood out to people, it was modern, it was strong and independent being able to stand on its own and make an effect of some sort on the audience and that it was feminine which fitted with the feel of the album and the artist. But after doing the photo shoot for the album cover I found that I know longer liked any of the fonts below and so found a new selection of fonts in which I just chose myself.   

 

The image below that is in large shows the two fonts in which I am using for my album cover. I really like these fonts as they are very subtle. My research from the other fonts I chose I found that people liked the font that was bold and stood out. But I found that I didn't need the title to stand out and it wont be in competition with anything. The title will be a huge focus on the front cover and so I found these subtle fonts contrasted with the fact that although they are subtle, they will still be the main focus along with the large image on front.