Sunday, 7 December 2014

Digipak Flat Plan

After researching similar digipaks of the rock genre my digipak will include...
A title panel (Front cover).
A tracklist panel.
A CD panel.
A panel with a narrative picture from our music video.
A panel with a performance shot of the band.
A panel with an image of the band members.

I have chosen to change my front cover from my initial idea of having a brick wall background, to having a cosmic star background due to the fact that a more cosmic background will link better with the bands name 'Aliennation' and, the album title 'Beyond Earth'.I will also use the cosmic theme on the back panel of the digipak making it a recurring theme throughout various panels. As well as this I have decided to use self promotion by saying that the album features the hit single 'How you remind me', the song which we based our music video around. For the album title I will use the 'oh no' font and for the message which says 'featuring-how you remind me' I will use the more simplistic 'Impact' font, a decision made as a result of audience feedback. For the band's logo I will use the 'True Lies' font.

On the track list panel I will use guitar strings in order to underline each of the song tracks. This connotes the use of a guitar in the recording studio which is more personal as recordings are expected to be private to bands. For the writing of the tracks I will use the 'Alien League' font in order to keep with the cosmic theme and in order to build iconography for the band.

I decided to use the image of the female protagonist walking away from the man, as seen in my music video, as it will link my main production to my ancillary text. Also it will sum up the album as it connotes the depiction of breakups, but also the effects of people walking away from their problems.
Furthermore, i'll include an image of the band members in a more private shot which will allow audiences to have a better chance of building personal relationships or identifying with the band as they will see them outside of their performing environment, in which, audiences may not usually be able to relate to. Finally, i'm going to include a performance shot taken from the music video in order to encapsulate the bands emotions whilst they are performing as my questionnaire suggested that audiences wish to see the band performing throughout music videos and other formats.

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