Today we started creating the digipak for our brand's album. We were first given a lesson on digipak's and learned what their purpose was along with what's included in one. I also took a look at some artists' digipak to help us generate the creativity to produce our own. I noticed that Rihanna's digipak focused much on her body. The whole of Rihanna's digipak has a strong red input such as her lipstick and roses, which is a connotation of love and lust. In order to create our digipak we had to take photos of the band members. This was conducted by myself and one other band member. We agreed as a group that we wanted extremely clear photographs for the digipak, as we wanted it to look perfect. We used a Cannon Digital SLR camera which we borrowed from our teacher for the day. We then took the images in our school concentrating on the mellow atmosphere that connected us with nature. Taju (the band leader) bought in his acoustic guitar from home so Jordan (the guitarist) could take some photographs with it, this was very helpful and added flavor to the photographs, rather than Jordan just standing there.
Below will be some images from shoot.
From the above images you can see that the photographs have come out as expected, clear and perfect. We then went into the classroom and began to edit the images further on Photoshop using the Apple Macs. We learnt new editing tricks such as adding a fake beard and how to erase blemishes. This helped us in order to make the photographs look perfect and professional. We decided we wanted the photographs to have a black and white theme and then we added a new layer and made it black and white, as well as adding more contrast to the photographs. Once doing this, I decided I wanted the back cover of the digipak to be a quarter of Tajus leg including a lot of the leaves for a subtle effect. I had this inspiration from a lot of the digipak's I researched.
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