Dual page (with Lyrics)

After Katie saying she would rather see the edited photographs with Lyrics, rather  than the drawings me and reece decided to try them out, im not that keen, however Reece quite likes them, but well have to get Katies opinion also.  Ill be honest, i really like the 1st one with the stylised photo, aswell as the last one with the lyrics.  

Digipack Full page design

As a concept for our digipack, we wanted to have a 2 page parts that would combine a edited photograph, and the crude drawings. As a quick mock together and concept, I put them together to see what they would look like together, obviously the symbol and picture don't match, but I just wanted to se if it would fit together. I think it looks rather nice, and keeps with the conventions of alternative rock, and as a double page it looks liek it could really stand out. What do you think?

2 more designs

Some more designs i've done today, the sex symbol is to portray the coventions of sex in alternative rock (obviously), how I don't particuarkly like that design, it was the first one we did before whe chose the right brushes and the right style, we I doubt we will actually use that one.However, the second one I feel is quite nice, it has the crude effect, and the bright rd/pink really stands out and it feels like a really random sketch.

Update 6.0

Just to update our current events, Katie is M.I.A, so we have no idea wheres shes at or whats she doing a the moment. Hopefully, she is continuing to edit the video to be ready for our rough cut by the end of the week, although speaking that we desperately need to finish off our last bit of filming in the house, hopefully we will be able to do it one day after sixth form, or on Saturday.

As for work I'm doing, i'm still chipping away on doing digipack designs and editing photo's using Photoshop, and with Reece's help, looking at which ones work and don't work and trying out different ideas.

Plan of action this week is to:

Finish Digpack Concepts
Begin Logo designs
Begin poster designs 

Digipack designs

An idea we had for the digipack was to have dual pages, with one side having a edited photo either from the shoot or not, and on the other side, have a crudely drawn images of the usual conventions of Alternative rock, which would relate to the image.  So for example, a smoking picture would have a drugs symbol on the other side.The reason we did this, is because many albums we have seen have a 'crude look', which often looks messy or unpolished look, and for ours, we wanted something similar but with a artistic edge.

Concepts for the Digipack:

Update and Digipak designs

Just an update on what we are doing today and lately, Katie is hammering away on Elements to get the rough cut all done and finished for the end of the month, whilst I started on editing photo's from our friday shoot and saturday shoot, we thought that if we split our tasks up, we can get more things done and quicker.

 As for the digipak, I used some shots and stills from the filming, and edited them on Photoshop Elements, we thought that if we used our own photo's for it, it would feel more connected tot he band and the videos rather than just random pictures that may not relate to the band. For the digipak, we really wanted to hammer home the conventions of the Alternative Rock genre, which are Drugs, Sex, Alcohol and Teenage culture or Music, so as an idea we wanted to have different images that relate to these conventions, and have a individual logos that would appear to the side of these pictures.

Concept designs so far.

Update 5.0 (Vinyl)

Me and Katie were talking over Facebook, and were toying with the idea of having a Vinyl aswell as our digipack for our album, we have seen from our research that many Alternative Rock bands have an alternative style vinyl, which is usually a limited edition version of what they produce.

As you can see from my research, Enter Shikari have a vinyl cover (which is sold out) of their 'Flash Flood of Colour' album, as do Muse of their 'The Resistance' album. The general conventions of a vinyl cover are they are alternative versions of the original CD covers, whether that be a different color scheme, or the same idea portrayed differently. Some bands such as Muse have numerous version of Vinyls and are all limited editions. With a vinyl we can also show in our project we are going further than required, and we can also show that we are putting our research to good use.

It's also good to note that Vinyls are coming back into fashion, but rather people listening to them, people tend to collect them or have them from their favourite band (I am guilty of this, I bought a Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight Vinyl in America for $10, I only bought it because it was Linkin Park), so Retro technology is in fashion and it sells well (and sells out very quickly). I wonder if cassettes ever come back.