Sunday 22 April 2018

Discs

There wasn't much to correct for the discs apart from rotating it to make it upside down but overall it was quite easy to do as it just required some cutting and putting it on top of the purple smoke photo. To match everything else in the digipak, I used a plain location shot from God's Own Junkyard as opposed to a photo of the artist. 

 










Saturday 21 April 2018

Cover and tracklist

For the cover I wanted it to look more mysterious and direct - to achieve this I used a photo where the artist is making eye contact with the camera. I experimented around with the positioning of the album name but as a result, I put it at the top because it looked the least stuffy there.

I also made the album name have an overall neon look to put the focus on the title rather than the actual image but also I wanted it to fit the background. The name of the album is 'Jeunesse' which means youth in French. 



For the tracklist, I wanted it to fit the music video's narrative so the entire product can fit well together and that's why I chose a picture of a train as you see in the music video that Raina is travelling. I chose songs that fits the artist's lifestyle as well as her image. The font chosen is inspired by graffiti to give it a rebellious feel to it.
1. Amour
2. Midnight
3. Love Haze
4. Neon Riot
5. Disparate Youth
6. Lost Train
7. Espresso
8. Running Late
9. Wonderland
10. Purple Smoke

Wednesday 18 April 2018

Overlay


I started off by using a digipak template as a guide and individually added each square in and working on every one at a time.

The first box that I started working on experimentally was the one below. I was already familiar with the effect called 'overlay' so I used that to on top of a normal photo that was unfiltered. I ended up liking the result therefore I made that part of the theme for my digipak - It gives it an edgy, abstract look to it and fits well with the aesthetic. I got the neon image that says 'It was all a dream' from google images when I searched neon signs. 
 



This is another example of the overlay effect.

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