In order for me to construct a digipak I first need to draft some ideas in order to see how I may want it to look. I will not be comparing this digipak to anything existing digipaks in particular as my video product follows a rather unconventional genre of combining dysfunctional sound with political messages.
As shown below, the two images are the same with differences - the first image is the initial sketch that I did on paper and scanned on the mac computer. Once I had scanned the sketch in, I started editing it in Photoshop to produce the second image. The second image has been cleaned up slightly by hilighting the background and crating a boarder. I did this so that I could see the image more clearly and see how it could look in a more professional light and, from this see if the elements of each panel could work well as a real piece. I think that each image on each panel does fit rather well and it all follows the same theme. However, I will be working on a few more sketches for the digipak in order to find what combination of images could look the best.
As shown in the second image, I have edited the lips from a sketch to an almost polished pair of lips with Photoshop. I did this as I was considering using a mixture of mediums for imagery so that the digipak would have several different elements and feelings to it. Also, creating my own imagery from near scratch could become slogan work and iconic images associated with the video and band/artist, therefore meaning it could be included on the print and potentially in the video piece.
The left inside panel is a tube of lipstick which I imagined would look nice with a bokeh light background. I think that the two would go well together as it would mirror the bokeh light imagery I am implementing in my video to give it a slightly more dysfunctional feel to match the style of the song in my video video and the original music video of song. Also, the lipstick mirrors the identity of the character in my video (whom will be the face of the band/artist for the song and video i.e David), therefore it is promoting the message of trans* acceptance beyond the music video.
This goes hand in hand with the inner right panel as it will be a pair of lips with bright red lipstick on. This also ties in with the front cover as for this sketch it will be an image of David applying make-up (this is also expecting to be the cover image of my magazine advertisement product as it will then show continuity between the pieces and actually show what the magazine advert is advertising).
The extra panel on the bottom left with be a compilation of many images of trans* people, showing the demographic that this band/artist is supportive of the trans* community and most likely of its fans as these images could be seen as images of fans as well as other trans* people. However, this image may be difficult to create as I would either have to construct many of he photos of people I know myself, or take images from the internet in which case I would have to ask for permission prior, wait for a reply and hope that they give me permission and this simply isn't reliable enough or practical enough o do in a short space of time to work with. However, this panel seems like a good idea to me so I will not dismiss it as of yet but I will not be replying on this image 100%
The song list on the bottom center panel is work in progress as I need to decide whether I will take existing song makes from Mac Demarco or create my own. Also, the CD disk is a work in progress - i do like the idea of having an emotional quote in it, but it needs to tie into the video and the magazine advert otherwise it would be rather random, so this element of the digipak will be on hold until I decide what fonts I want to use and what phrases I want to run through the three products.
This goes hand in hand with the inner right panel as it will be a pair of lips with bright red lipstick on. This also ties in with the front cover as for this sketch it will be an image of David applying make-up (this is also expecting to be the cover image of my magazine advertisement product as it will then show continuity between the pieces and actually show what the magazine advert is advertising).
The extra panel on the bottom left with be a compilation of many images of trans* people, showing the demographic that this band/artist is supportive of the trans* community and most likely of its fans as these images could be seen as images of fans as well as other trans* people. However, this image may be difficult to create as I would either have to construct many of he photos of people I know myself, or take images from the internet in which case I would have to ask for permission prior, wait for a reply and hope that they give me permission and this simply isn't reliable enough or practical enough o do in a short space of time to work with. However, this panel seems like a good idea to me so I will not dismiss it as of yet but I will not be replying on this image 100%
The song list on the bottom center panel is work in progress as I need to decide whether I will take existing song makes from Mac Demarco or create my own. Also, the CD disk is a work in progress - i do like the idea of having an emotional quote in it, but it needs to tie into the video and the magazine advert otherwise it would be rather random, so this element of the digipak will be on hold until I decide what fonts I want to use and what phrases I want to run through the three products.
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