Digipak - Final

Front Panel

Inside Panel

Side Panel

Disc Panel

Back Panel

Website - Final

I created a website homepage along with some links to a gallery and tour dates, for one of my ancillary tasks.

Hey Violet - Homepage

Website Editing - 30/11/16

I have changed my website homepage theme to make it more simplistic and clearer. I have chosen to use bold purple as a back ground colour as this enhances the images, videos and gifs displayed on the page.

Editing Website Homepage

The posts are gray scaled until the viewer hovers over the image/video when it changes to colour. This makes the viewers experience more enjoyable, whilst also being different from a plain webpage. This may help to keep the bands webpage in their mind, for the viewer to further look up and take interest in the band. Successfully selling the band.

Top of the Website Homepage

Another change I have made is adding in a header. This way it is obvious to the viewer what webpage they are on and introduces the band immediately. 

I have added links which sit over the header, the black background contrasts well with the bright green and purple making the links and text stand out.

Further down the Homepage

Website Editing - 29/11/16

In addition to making a homepage for the band Hey Violet, I have also created two linked pages, one to a gallery and another to tour dates.

Web page and editing of the gallery.

I added a few images taken from the filming day and some that were used in my digipak. This creates synergy between the website and the digipak.

I created both of the additional pages, using a standard layout on tumblr, this allowed me to created new links for the pages. I added some tour dates to the linked page.

Web page and editing of tour dates.

Typeface for Digipak

When creating my digipak I knew that I would need to find a typeface which I could use on the different panels and also for the bands name. I needed a typeface that suited the alternative genre.

I looked online for fonts I could use and downloaded a few before testing each one out on my digipak before deciding on a few I liked the most.

I have decided to use a font called Cyclope on my digipak because it is bold and gives the feel of rebellion which fits together well with the alternative genre.

Dgipak Editing - 24/11/16

I have continued editing my digipak today. I have finally decided on the images I want to use so have started to modify them. I have looked back at my digipak RMAs to get some inspiration and to know what design I should be trying to accomplish.

For my front panel I have used a picture I have taken of my actor in a similar position as one in my actual music promo. This creates a link between the digipak and the music promo and reinforces the star image I have created for my actor.

I have a pure theme running through my digipak so for my CD panel I have used a picture of leaves. I blurred out the top and bottom to give the image more depth and to draw focus to the centre where the disc will be.

Again to follow the theme of pure, for the side panel I have also chosen to use a 'nature' picture. I have synergy through my digipak with nature theme, nature is featured in almost every picture. This joins my digipak together.

I have distorted the colour of the of the image used, after analysing other digipaks from the same genre distorting colours or objects in the image.

I used coloured filters on photoshop which allowed me to change the intensity of the colour distortion.

I also used colour distortion in the back panel, this keeps synergy throughout my digipak. I used a purple/violet colour to overlay the last image as this hints at the band name and ties the band and the album together with synergy.

Website Editing

After looking back at my RMAs I have noticed how many of the bands used a tumblr account as they're homepage. Due to this I have decided to make the homepage of my website a tumblr blog.

I used a tumblr code maker to create a base for my homepage that I could build on. I added in links to the header to make the website more accessible, it is easy to read and see providing an easy experience for the viewer.

Digipak Initial Feedback

I asked members of my focus group to give me feedback on the digipak panels I have created so far.

They gave me suggestions to how I could improve my digipak panel. 

"The panel looks very busy and it's hard to focus on anything in the picture"

- To build upon their suggestions I cropped the original image to make it less 'busy' and also used a blur effect (tilt-shift). This effect draws focus to the centre of the image. I also took off the overlaying pattern to simplify the design.

Digipak - First Attempts

I have begun to design my digipak using Photoshop. I wanted to have overlaying designs on my original pictures. It took me a while to work out, but I downloaded an image and then created another layer in photoshop and cut the original image in half. Then on a new layer I changed the size of the image I had left and multiplied it so I ended up with rows of the image. 
To see what I was doing I used a green background layer, the image I was working with was small and the lines were not easy to see on the plain original background.

After making my final design I viewed it with my intended background image. I made duplicates of my design to make it darker and more visible on the background image.

Digipak

We have been given a template of a standard digipak with dimensions, I will be using this to help me create my digipak.