The document discusses ideas for designing the panels of a digipak album cover representing the four seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. For Spring, the designer aims to feature a lush green area and sunny sky showing optimism. For Summer, a beach scene will portray warmth and relaxation. Autumn will show simple "autumn leaves" design centered around the CD. Winter aims to attract attention with a pristine snowy setting that allows space for song information. The designer also considers fonts that reflect power and authority for the album name "Kings" versus a more delicate font for the artist name.

1. Digipaks Ideas

2. The first idea I had for my album cover is themed around the 4 seasons; each one of the panels has a picture representing Spring, Summer,
Autumn and Winter respectively. The track itself is also relatively upbeat, so the images I have in mind reflect this sort of optimism.
I was inspired by the examples from digipaks in the same genre, which often have natural photography – sometimes in a nostalgic style.
To portray nostalgia I may print off and frame the four images, then take a separate picture of the framed photos to use on the album cover.
This would also reflect the plot point of the photographs in our music video.

3. This specific design is influenced both by my idea for a season themed
digipak and the title of the album, ‘Kings’. The woman in the picture will
be standing on a hill, overlooking a large view as if she is a King asserting
dominance over his land. This pose – arms outstretched, and standing
upright – looks very powerful and authoritative, further justifying its use
to represent a ‘King’.
This image will heavily cater to my
target audience as it will capture the
essence of Spring, hopefully having a
lush green area and a warm, sunny
sky to emphasise this.
The indie-folk genre is a subgenre of
folk music, which largely has its roots
in people singing and producing
music about love and respect for
nature.
I hope to use Saffron, the
female character featured in
our music video, as the subject
of this picture to establish
continuity.

4. The beach is a huge signifier of Summer; it represents warmth and excitement, with the blue sky and ocean
portraying a calm and relaxing atmosphere.
Whilst deciding what sort of image to use for the representation of Summer, I was in danger of using something
which was too similar to Spring. Thinking about the green palette often associated with Spring, I decided to go for
the comparatively bright colour of blue, which made me think of the beach.
Our music video features a
beach setting/scene during the
climax, so this design also fits in
with the context of our film.

5. I would like to use a relatively simple design for the inside right cover of
my digipaks (Autumn) due to the fact that it will be centred on the CD
of the album.
‘Autumn leaves’ are a signifier of Autumn, so it would be fitting to do a
simple design based off of this.

6. The design for the back cover of the digipak must be as captivating as the front cover. This is why Winter is a
fitting choice; a snowy setting is very natural and pristine, and will attract the audience immediately if they
were to pick the album up.
For this design I need to ensure that there is enough clear space on the picture to place the songs featured on
the album and the copyright information.

7. Ideas for Fonts
These two fonts reflect power and authority,
which draws attention to the album.
The album will be named ‘Kings’ after the song
we are producing a video for, and therefore I feel
like an authoritative and ‘royal’ font would be
relevant. These fonts also fit with other digipaks I
have researched; the text is often capitalised and
powerful, managing to stand out and grab
people’s attention.
In contrast, this font is more delicate and agile
and will be used for the artist’s name. This is
because it looks quite nostalgic, and is similar
to other fonts used in digipaks of the same
genre.