Draft Digipak

I have used PicMonkey in conjunction with Open Office to create a draft digipak. I have taken inspiration from the Tom Waits digipak that I analysed in an earlier blog post in terms of colour scheme (a dusty tan colour).

As my genre is perceived to be Folk Rock I have chosen an un-doctored image of a folk rock artist, in this case Jeff Buckley to create an idea of what I want my final digipak to look like.

I have used this image of Buckley:

I chose this image is it has not been photoshopped. Also it has a plain white background which makes it far easier to play around with to make the image my own. I rotated the image and zoomed so his face would take up the entirety of the image. I removed colour from the image, making it a pale sepia tone. I then brushed colour back into the left half of his face to create this effect:

I also put in the name of my artist, Lift Off, implying him to be the lead singer of the band. As there are a large amount of rock bands that only use their front man/lead singer in promotion material, for example Evanescence's Amy Lee, HIM's Ville Valo and Bon Jovi's Jon Bon Jovi. I have chosen to do this because our artist is not a folk artist, they are folk rock artists. As such conventions of rock are still fair to use as it is a hybrid genre.

For our back cover I have looked at traditonal wood etchings, as they have a celtic/folk vibe. I used this wood etching of an owl, as themes of wildlife and animals are common in folk music:

To keep synergy using dustier yellows in colour I chose to do a similar colour to my front cover and I put the track names in, in the same font as the title font, once again, for synergy. 

For our inside panel I have chosen to put in another image of Buckley, as inside panels of Digipaks usually contain an image of the artist again but in a different pose.

For this image I chose to keep synergy by editing it in the same fashion that I edited the digipaks front cover. I once again added sepia tone and then brought  the colour back into the artist but not the background. In this case however I recoloured his whole face.

However when it came to placing in the digipak the shape of the image meant it didn't fit in the frame. So I cropped it down. This cropped version fit much better into the draft:

This is my draft digipak to give me an idea of what my final one should look like. It is so far only missing the inside right where the disc should go. I am so far very pleased with it. It fits the genre of Folk Rock well with its use of sepia and dusty colours