Creating my Digipak Front Cover

To begin with I went through all the images taken infront of the green screen. I chose pictures that I believed best suited the artist we was trying to create. I decided to chose 6 for the front cover, inspired by the Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen digipak. I chose 6 instead of 9 as the square shape of the CD case has less room for the images, and we needed to ensure we had enough space for the artist name and cd name.

We edited our pictures on Photoshop. The main changes we completed were:
-Erasing the green screen
-Brightening of eyes/ teeth
-Cloning or removing hair
-Covering blemishes

We believe these changes are the most common seen in the industry currently, and wanted our digipak to look as professional as others on the market.

FRONT COVER

Here are the before and after stages of our front cover 6 images.

After the images where ready, we created a guideline on InDesign. This software is used for laying out images and words, which I thought was perfect for this part of the project.

I placed the Chelsea Violet logo at the top, so it is easily noticeable and one of the main parts to the cover. I aligned the name of the CD with the name of the artist in the centre of the page.

On reflection of my first draft, I believed the case looked a bit empty, even though there was minimal white space. To fix this I decided to use a background I had previously created on Illustrator, when getting to grips with the software. Hannah and I also decided to change the name of the album, as many artists have different names from the track on the CD. We decided to go with Twilight as it represented our artist name Chelsea VIOLET and was a catchy, rememberable word.

After creating my second draft, I had the opposite problem to my initial issue, I now felt like the case looked too busy. To fix this, we only used the background at the top and bottom of the case, behind the text. This allowed the images to stand out more, against the plain white background and let the message of our fun/ relatable artist across.

Chroma Key Research

Editing Our Video

Taking my Digipak Pictures

Our previous research helped us to know what images we needed to shoot. From looking at the Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen digipak we knew we wanted to re


We took inspiration from the Digipak for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. I took photographs of Hannah infront of the green screen, completing a range of poses. We went for a range of fun/ lighthearted poses and also serious/ sultry manner.

After taking our images, we then filmed an additional lip-sync. We thought that another lip-sync with Hannah in the same outfit as the digipak would help our products maintain synergy throughout.

Green Screen Practice

After my green screen research I decided to practice using the green screen myself. We have decided to use the green screen for a part of our lip sync and also to create our digipak.

Today we took some footage of Hannah lip syncing to our song, ‘You’ve Got The Love’ infront of the green screen. We had to ensure that Hannah stood without touching the green screen so that the background we chose to use would not appear to be moving. After filming the footage, I uploaded it to the Mac and opened it in Final Cut Pro.

When using the green screen for our digipak, I took a photo of our friendship bracelets that feature throughout the video. I then opened the photo in Photoshop and used the ‘Magic Eraser Tool’ to remove the green background. I then zoomed into the bracelet to remove any extra green pixels. I then adjusted the brightness and contrast of the photo to allow the bracelets to become more eye catching. I used the ‘Eyedropper Tool’ to select the correct colour when making the white beads appear brighter using the ‘Paint Brush Tool’.

These two tasks have given me both practice in using the green screen for taking moving footage and images and also build on my basic understanding of Photoshop.

Digipak Research

Software Useage

To learn some basic skills on the Adobe Suite Software I created a range of digipak covers for our album.

I used Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop to create my initial ideas.

ILLUSTRATOR
To begin with I looked at the different tools that are available on the software. Below you can see how I experimented with them.

I went on to use the twirl tool to create backgrounds for one of the initial ideas.



I also used the warp tool to create interesting shapes for another idea.





























PHOTOSHOP
I used the Magic Eraser Tool to remove the green screen from the image of the bracelet.

The eyedropper Tool allowed me to choose the correct white colour to brighten the beads of the bracelet, using the Brush Tool.

INDESIGN
I used this to create the layout of each of my designs.

The leading and tracking features on the text section, allowed me to create a neat, perfect logo. The optical setting also allowed the letters to appear seamless.