The document discusses the process of designing a digipak for an album. It describes choosing a black and white color scheme to reflect the folk rock genre. An image of an actor at a train station was selected for the front cover to represent the song lyrics. Draft designs included a map image on the back cover to symbolize travel. Feedback will be gathered through surveys to help determine the best designs for the front, back, and spine. The finished digipak layout incorporated these elements along with track listings, credits, and barcodes.

1. When editing and changing my front cover for my Digipak I
needed to make sure that I included the title of the album, and
the image I was going to use. After much research on different
digipaks and research into the chosen genre of my music video,
which is folk rock I found some inspiration in what I was going to
use for the colour scheme and what kind of font I would use for
the title. I chose to base the whole colour around black and white
as I found this resembled and reflected on the idea of folk rock
bands, and considering ‘Homeward Bound’ is an older song the
black and white was very relevant for the colour scheme. I used
this image of the actor stood at the train station because it
reflects on the song lyrics “Im sitting at the railway station, got a
ticket for my destination”.
Front cover – drafts and
finals

2. These two images are taken from my first
draft of the back cover. I used an image of
a map to reflect on the idea of the music
video; homeward bound, and how he is
always travelling and on a journey. I
changed it to black and white to fit into
the colour scheme. I used various editing
tools to create this.
The tools I used to create the draft and the final draft were things like changing the brightness and contrast, hue and saturation, curves, levels,
and enhancing the colours and black and white areas. I found the barcode on the internet and saved the image I wanted to use by importing
the images. I created my logo of ‘HME’ standing for Harrington Music Entertainment, and by creating this I am able to use it on other parts of
the digipak. I am happy with the two outcomes and I will see from my survey I will ask to people
Which draft they
prefer. This way I
will get a better
understanding of
which one to use
for my final one. I
think both reflect
well on the music
video and the
actual album.

3. Spine – draft and final
When editing my spine I needed to make sure that the sizing were correct and I was able to fit everything on that I needed to. To create the
spine I needed to make sure that I could include things like; the name of the album (which was Homeward Bound), the artist (which is Harrison
– but real artist of the song is Simon and Garfunkel), and the distributors logo. I made sure that after I had the correct sizing's I made the
background colour of the spine and grey colour – due to the colour scheme, as everything needs to fit well together. I started in my first draft as
using a darker grey colour, but then reflecting on my front and back cover I decided to change it to a lighter grey colour – by doing this I think
that the album overall will no look as sinister as it would if it were to be dark grey/almost black. Because I have already made the distributor
logo (HME – which stands for ‘Harrington Music Entertainment’) which I made up, I could easily move it over to the spine template to create
the draft and the final spine. I needed to make sure that the main focus on the spine was the name of the album, which is Homeward Bound,
and the artist name, considering he is the one acting and miming in it. Although the two drafts of my spines are very similar I think I am happy
with the style, font, colour scheme and sizing’s chosen.

4. Front Cover –
Option 1

5. Front Cover –
Option 2

6. Back Cover –
Option 1

7. Back Cover –
Option 2

8. Spine – Draft and
final
Option 1 Option 2

9. Inside – Page 1

10. Inside – Page 2

11. Inside – Page 3
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12. Finished Digipak
Layout
Inside Left
Inside Centre
Left