Thursday, 28 October 2010

Digipak Cover Ideas

After discovering I would be able to use my idea for 'Heartbreak Beautiful' I started thinking of ideas for my digipak cover. As I have previously said, I will continue using the theme of split screens throughout my promotional material. Here is a flatplan of the cover, annotated with
some of my ideas so far:

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I would like to use the album name Heartbreak Beautiful, as it is the same name as the song I will be using to make my music video. Through research I have found that the majority of the time an album will be named after a track from said album, such as Paramore's 'Brand New Eyes'. As this song will act as the first single off of the album, it makes sense to make this the album name. This also makes me more able to create a brand identity for Snakes Hate Fire, as I can tie in things from the music video with the album, such as the split screen and different outcomes from the same situation. After searching to see if any other bands have made similar album covers, I have found no other albums that use a split photo effect like I want to for my album cover, making it unique and creative. However I did find that Christina Aguilera achieved a similar effect with her album 'Bionic' and this will help aid me when editing my own:

christina-aguilera-bionic-cd-cover-album-art

An idea that I came up with was to make multiple different album covers for the album, portraying the music video of multiple situations with different outcomes. However, I am aware that this will take a lot of extra work which I may not be able to do in the limited time we have to produce our promotional products. I was inspired by the band 30 Seconds To Mars for this idea, as for their 'This Is War' album they allowed fans to pick 2,000 different covers for the album. They asked fans to send them pictures of themselves or people they admired, or images they loved and the 2,000 best ones were chosen. Here are a few:



I feel like this is a very creative and unique idea, and would like to be able to do something similar with my album cover if possible. However, if not I also like the idea of face filling the whole of the frame, and this is also something I would like to achieve.

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