Digipak Final (Fern O'Gorman and Alice Sandom)

This is a collage our final and complete Digipak. We are extremely pleased with how it looks as a finished product but, in order to have a continuous theme throughout, we did have to make a few changes to our original designs.

Front Cover
The major change to our front cover was fading out our light bulb image and integrating a matted 'distressed leather' background to make the design more complicated. We also changed the titles font to one that appears similar to one of the band's own chosen designs, but does not look as simple or as clinical to the one we used before. We also removed the band's logo and placed more importance on the band's name, enlarging the font used so that it took up more space.

Back Cover
We also used the same matted, distressed leather image as a background for this cover, using only a part of the initial image we had taken in the cover's corner, This allowed us more room to place song titles and the copyright details which now fit snugly to the left of the image. Our main issue here, was deciding on a font to use that would be easy to read, would feel continuous throughout the rest of the digipak and suit the band's genre. We eventually agreed to an ittalic yet scratchy font but now realise this may look to basicc for the back cover. However, we are very pleased with how all the separate elements come together and compliment themselves and the front cover.

The CD
We made very little changes to our CD, simply adding a logo and title to give the design a unique flair and so that potential buyers would be able to recognise it without the rest of the digipak. For the title, we settled on the same font used as the front cover which felt continuous and showed up well against the space-like appearance of the background.

Lyric Page
We also added a lyric page of the song we chose to do for our music video 'In Between'. We used the same font as that used for the titles and placed it against the distressed leather background. Our main issue was fitting all the lyrics on and we found ourselves having to reduce the size of the font and abbreviating lyrics - removing chorus's and just keeping the verses.

Note from Richard Skeratt
The note was an extra addition we made, inspired by that of singers from other bands. Like the lyric page, it too has been placed against the same mottled background and uses the same font. It simply thanks people for listening to the music and explains why he enjoys performing and what first inspired him.

Photo of Richard Skeratt
The photo was included to enhance the singer's star image an to create a visual intertextual reference between our music video and the digipak. The image was take against a white background which allowed us to desaturate the image in order to make him stand out more and to darken the background towards the bottom, so that a large spotlight appears to be shining onto him. The logo was added after so that people would be able to recognise his connection to the band.