First Draft for our music video.

In this draft, there are various gaps and changes to be made, however the basic idea is present within this version.

Making the Front Cover.

I decided that I wanted to keep a fairly simple design but wanted the same kind of theme, the same style as the Wolf Parade 'Expo 86' and Cold War Kids 'We used to Vacation', these covers use simple imagery something that I wanted to incorporate into my own design.

This was the original image i wanted on my front cover.

Making the Back Cover

To make the back I looked at how others bands album covers had been made, the use of text, postioning, imagery and even simplicity. I wanted my cover to match the theme running through my whole digipak, the idea of lights and circles and the simplicity of my front cover. For the back I first created a circle and added 2 images and put them into the circle, this was followed by me using different modes on each layer and changing the opacity to combine the two images.

I next looked at the use of text how it has the track listing on the back which I then added to above the circle in an appropriate font. The text included the song title, how long the song lasts and who composed/sung it, this was information i found of the 'We Used to vacation' EP I have analysed prior to this.

Magdalena  

‘3:20’

Released 2010

Recorded by Jared Costa and Andrew Hone at Rubidoux Studios.

I then added the text at the bottom of the cover, the information I added was reconstructed from the EP 'Hospital Beds', I looked at what it said and remade it relevant to what mine was.

andrewhone.com

©® Andrew Hone under exclusive license to Rubidoux Records.

All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the work produced reserved. The copyright in this recording is owned by Andrew Hone under exclusive license to Rubidoux Records. Unauthorised copying, copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.

Made in the EU.

 

Then I started to add finishing touches to the back cover, such as a barcode and my logo. This is the final design.

Creating the Logo for my record company

When it came to making my CD cover more realistic and beliveable I looked at different logo's that other bands used. Such as, Downtown Records and RCA which Kings Of Leon are signed too.

Here are both of the Logos for Downtown records and RCA records. I like the way in which the initial shape is cut up into more than one piece, instead of being just one solid shape, I would say that Downtown influenced my label more than RCA as seen in the image below.

I Included text to just above the logo, similar to that of Downtowns, I used simple black and white which can be seen on the RCA logo opposed to the DTR one. The rubidoux which inspired my record labels name was based of a song by 'Cold War Kids', the song depicts a end of the world setting which is why I made the logo a almost type of moon, as if it was an eclipse.

My Final Idea *perhaps improved.

 This is my Digipak with all 6 panels. More information will be uploaded going throught he process of how it was created.

 Here is my a4 magazine advertisement, enlarged.

Here is my front cover enlarged.

more pictures for a digipak

I decided i wanted to try out different designs in the form of light drawings.

Light drawings are created by altering the shutter speed of a camera, then going into a darkly lit area, when you take the picture, if you ahve altered the shutter speed you can set it to take one picture within 8 seconds. within the 8 seconds you can, with a light draw into the black space, all of the light will then be captured in the pciture, this creates unique designs as you get something new everytime you experiment, here are some i have taken.