2. Images
used
For the album front cover I took a photo of a building with a tree in front
of it, then I used an editing software Gimp, to make the picture black
and white, to give the connotation of metal music, and its themes
like darkness and horror, and added crucifixes in the background
which is a Black Sabbath reference, this is another metal band,
which also implies the new band have similar sounds. This informs
the audience of potential influences on the bands music before even
listening to it, as I have tried to include more traditional metal genre
related imagery.
Original photo of album
cover before editing.
3. The back cover of the album is a photo of one of the
member of the band playing guitar, with the song
included on the album beside him, I told the
guitarist to face away from the camera when I
took the photo, as I felt it would add more mystery
to the band, which would get the audience more
interested, as you would want to find out who
BULLITT are. The back of the album also
includes a ‘parental advisory’ warning, because of
the dark content involved in the music and music
promo, which something common with metal
albums, and I feel it almost attracts people to
listen to the album if they know it contains dark
imagery. The CD disk sticker is quite basic, ands
fits in well with the rest of the album.
4. Fonts
The font used throughout the whole digipak, is ‘stencil’, and is the most
important one out of all them, because it is the band BULLITT’s
logo, and I felt that it must be used on everything to get the look of
their name more identifiable and well known. The font itself suggests
a kind military feel to it, like the band is an army, and If you buy the
album you can be part of the ‘army’. On the back cover I have used
a gothic style font which I thought fitted in well with the black
background, as it looks like the song titles have been carved into the
wall, this also adds to the dark conventions that I was trying to
create.
5. Colour scheme
For my digipak, I noticed that the colour black has
strict connotations with the metal music genre,
which is why my digipak is very black dominant,
this also leads to connotations of metal music as
well such as death and misery. I used red for the
band’s logo because I thought it stood out
heavily on the black backgrounds, and is quite
eye catching, the connotations with red are
blood, danger, and even romance, which are just
some of the signifiers in metal music. Even
though I edited the photo into a black and white
negative style, it also made the tree look like it is
covered in snow, which I felt it ruined the
metaphor of the title of the album ‘Season in
Hell’ unintentionally, but on the other hand I
thought it looked fitting for an metal album cover.
6. Colour scheme
For my digipak, I noticed that the colour black has
strict connotations with the metal music genre,
which is why my digipak is very black dominant,
this also leads to connotations of metal music as
well such as death and misery. I used red for the
band’s logo because I thought it stood out
heavily on the black backgrounds, and is quite
eye catching, the connotations with red are
blood, danger, and even romance, which are just
some of the signifiers in metal music. Even
though I edited the photo into a black and white
negative style, it also made the tree look like it is
covered in snow, which I felt it ruined the
metaphor of the title of the album ‘Season in
Hell’ unintentionally, but on the other hand I
thought it looked fitting for an metal album cover.
