Album Cover & Magazine

Planning

Our original inspiration for our Digipak covers was from the Gnarls Barkley - Crazy, music video where they recreated an inkblot similar to those of the Rorschach test used in psychology. As seen below. 

We found a tutorial and re generated our own inkblot using Adobe After effects.

We used one of numerous inkblots we created for the background of the front cover. We used a filter on an image of the artist called 'Cutout' which creates solid layers out of groups of similar colours. We made the image of the artist slightly transparent so you can see the inkblot through him - suggesting that the audience will get an insight into the artist through listening to this CD.

For legal reasons we had to include the parental advisory logo do explicit language and content within the songs.

 The lighting in this close-up shot of the artist was used to reflect certain characteristics associated with him; for example red is usually associated with passion, which is a topic that F Star Raw tries to convey through his music, the other main colour used is green which is often associated to money, but also freedom - which could be said as the artists reason for producing this song - to free himself from his stresses.

This is another example of the inkblots we generated using Adobe After Effects

We took this image of the records, this was one of the settings of the music video. We thought that it would be a good idea to include this as it creates a clear link between both the video and the ancillary pieces.

Final Magazine Advert & Digipak

We used the same image for the magazine advert as one of the tiles in the digipak, again to create a link between the two pieces. We tried to incorporate the rule of 3rds in this piece as each 3rd is filled with a significant element of the poster; for example the top 3rd contains the artists name, middle 3rd has an image of the artists face and bottom 3rd contains details of tours etc. You can also apply the Z-Rule to this piece because the composition of the poster (where the title is placed, artists face is positioned and where we have written the details) adhere to this rule and thus make it aesthetically pleasing.