Ancillary Task: Digipak

As we started working on our digipak, we kept in mind the theme our whole project had, But decided to keep it slightly appealing by keeping it in colour. In our music video we had several representative items. So to make it interesting, we decided to keep those.
This is the template we used.

We started by selecting a picture of our artist that we all agreed on to be on the inside right. We imported the picture into our photo editing software. For this we used Adobe Photoshop CS6. We turned it Black and White, and further decreased the amounts of the colours Red, Green, and Yellow, so that our picture gets a richer look.

We then proceeded to apply the edited picture file onto the template. For that we, again, used Adobe Photoshop CS6. To apply this picture, we went into edit, then paste special, and then paste. As the template was in a CD shape, we had to cut out the centre circular region. We did that by selected the Rectangle tool, and then Elliptical Marquee Tool. With this tool, we selected the inner circle, and removed it. This is how it looked so far.

Then we chose the front outside picture, and adjusted it's brightness and contract, and left the colours as they were. After, we added the edited picture onto the template and adjusted it according to how we wanted it to show. Then we simply added the text 'La Lune', which is the name of the song we used, and placed it on top of the cover. We didn't add the artist's name, as I believe, it creates a sense of branding, as if the name is required to be written down because his picture is enough. We took the inspiration from Lana Del Rey's 'Born To Die' album cover.

We moved onto the back outside of the digipak. The first two pictures were just pictures of the artist. So we decided to show a bit of what his product looks like. For that, we overlapped two images onto of each other and decreased their opacities. The two images we used were, one, of the female actor, who represented happiness, hope, and positivity in a figurative form. And two, the windchime, which we used as a symbol of her (hope) presence.

We added on the text of team members and actors after we adjusted the edited image onto the template.

Moving onto the inside left of the digipak, we chose a still from the video itself from when the actor overcomes his depression and irrational cognitions. We edited it's colours in Adobe Photoshop CS6 using Colour Balance. Later, after we adjusted the picture onto the template, we added a verticle text along the right edge, saying All rights reserved to blueiceproductions. This is a very conventional item used in a digipak.

We decided to add a barcode on the outside left of the cover, and add a DVD video logo on top of the CD. These are a few more conventionally used items.The reason why we decided to place it on top of the CD is because we wanted the challenge the convention of placing it at the bottom. Also because the image we chose had negative space on the top, so it looked very vacant without anything.