Further drafting

I took some pictures of the beach and the sea in Wales. I decided that I want to have everything in black and white for my digipak. 

Final draft

Front Cover

back cover

digipak outside

inside left

inside middle

inside right

digipak inside

I used light painting, which I did in the evening on the school field as the font for my digipak. I also wrote some lyrics of songs from the album down with my light painting font. My CD is gonna be placed in the middle of the digipak.

Final piece

Front cover

Back cover

the whole digipak

inside digipak with cd

inside digipak without cd

Work in Progress:

I did some experimentation with the disc and the light painting. I drew the buttons of facebook and twitter and scanned them. After that I coloured them in Photoshop and made them look like the actual ones. I used them for my back cover.

Evaluation

The brief for my chosen piece

I started my Unit 2 piece by brainstorming ideas to do with the given adjectives “covert” and “hidden”. I was interested in “secrets” because I thought I could do the best out of this word. Because I've done a magazine cover and a film poster before I decided to create a digipak. I then had to decide whether I want to come up with a name for an album or to make one for a band that already exists. One of my favourite band is “One Republic” and because they already had a song called “secrets” I chose to do an album for them. I went to Wales and took some nice pictures of the countryside and I decided to use them for my digipak. I did experimentations with colour, photography and drawings to get to my final piece.

A piece that has been influenced by an artist/designer

One piece I did was influenced by another artist because I copied his work and did an emulation for it. I had to use watercolour for that so I learned how to use a brush properly and how to mix colours to get the right colour. I then scanned it and edited it with Photoshop. Because I didn’t draw the whole piece but every piece separately I had to resize the different parts and combine them. 

A piece where I have experimented with different processes

I have experimented on one piece with different processes was my final piece. One night me and my friend went outside and tried to do light painting with a torch which in my opinion went quite well, even though it was the first time we did such a thing like that. We drew the whole alphabet and made a section of it. We also experimented with our faces, how the torch effects our body when taking pictures of our selves. The other process I used for my final piece was photography. The pictures I took looked really nice with the font of the light painting so I decided to use it instead of a computer or handwritten font. 

A piece that I refined over time

One of my pieces I did completely new was one of my emulations. I really didn’t like my work so I decided that I have to start again. I used a different process than before by using water colour instead of colouring in photoshop. I did all my drawings again, so my emulation looked better and more handmade.  

My final piece

My final piece was a digipak for the band “One Republic” with six panels. I was looking at the album “pulselite” by Sheryl Crow, because I wanted to include light painting on my digi pak. I did each letter twice by using a torch so I could decide which letter I want to use for my words. I think the light painting in combination with the photography went well because the pictures I used are black and white so the light painting gives the album the needed “colour” and it makes a nice effect on the whole album. If I would do the piece again, I would probably change the inside of the cover slightly and wouldn’t write as many song texts of the album as I did, but some of them.