DIGIPAK ALTERATIONS

After shooting all my photographs for my digipak, the next step was to go into editing, via selection of images and use of photoshop.

Overall I was very pleased with how my pictures came out and managed to have successful pictures for 3 sides of my digipak ancillary. Yet I was having a few issues with the back image of my digipak.

As you can see on the diagram below - this was my original flat plan idea for the back of my CD. My idea was to have all three band members holding up their instruments, almost in a silhouetted form with the outlines of their bodies displayed from artificial lighting behind them. A postmodern technique that was much inspired by Greenday itself, where they show the workings/ behind the scenes of a music video or image, by having wires and lights set around. 

With all considered of the general theme of my digipak and difficulties with lighting, I decided that my picture would be best being simple with no instruments and just a light behind them.

This was my result. 

From my imagination to product, the concept of my idea had not worked how I had planned it to, although the lighting was right, the positioning of my band was not how I had hoped when I took the picture. With this in mind, I didn't think this image would be suitable for the back cover of my CD case. Therefore I created this possible back cover image with some of the close ups I took of my band the same day.

In photoshop I created this image, made up of 3 different close-ups of my band members by changing the opacity, fading them into one another. I chose to have Ollie, the lead singer brighter and more detailed, whilst the others lose opacity of their images as it fades backwards. However after deliberating with audience feedback, I decided that there would be too many faces on the digipak, and I wanted to maintain my simple but effective style, in terms of my digipak and poster.

This was my final image for the back cover of my digipak ancillary. It is simplistic but postmodern in the form of showing the light and stand, proving that everything is artificial. I am very happy with my final choice and am proud with my final digpak!