Construction Post 5: Digipak post-production

Out of the three artefacts, the digipak was the one I had the least involvement with, but I still did a significant amount of work on it. The digipak was created using Adobe Photoshop. Before starting, we already had inspirations such as Craig David's cover to his debut album 'Fill me in', as well as using some planning sketches I had done in the pre-production stages of the task.

The sketch we used for planning.

From this inspiration we began by using pictures we had taken in our in-school photoshoot, cropping out the backgrounds are spot-healing to enhance the way the singer and DJ looked. We also found an appropriate background and modified it to look more pink, a colour scheme we had agreed upon beforehand.

The unedited image of Aisha as the singer of CRUZE.

The unedited image of me as the DJ in CRUZE.

The unedited background of the cover.

The audience response to the cover at this stage was generally positive, with people saying that they liked the background and the photos and thought it looked professional, but also saying that the costume worn in the photo on the front cover looked unpleasantly non-symmetrical, so we fixed this in Photoshop.

We got the fonts used on the cover from website 'Dafonts.com', which was interesting as I had never used an external font from a website before, although it was easy to implement. I ran into a small amount of difficulty when trying to get the song titles to show up clearly, eventually realising that I had to cut a track from the tracklist in order to make it fit with in the light colour of the cloud, which made the titles easy to read.

The final stages included working on the cropping of the image of me on the back cover and adding on the 'Nimbus Records' logo (Which I also created), adding the bar code and adding the legal information required on the back cover. The cover is also based off of some designs we had planned beforehand.

The final outside cover for the digipak.

I also chose, cropped and edited the inside cover image. We had planned for the inside cover to be a single image, and we chose an image from our photo shoot from our fourth week of post-production where we re-visited Brick Lane to get some shots for this purpose.

The final inside cover of the digipak.

The audience response to the final was quite positive,the inside cover especially being praised for it's urban look and that it had good synergy with the music video, but also saying that the front cover looked a bit flat as criticism.