In my lesson today i had to choose a band in the same genre as my chosen genre (Electronic) and design a didgi pack for their album.
1.I copied this template of a digipack onto publisher to help me with my design
2. I searched for a band photo on google. I chose the electronic/dance band Azari & III for my example band and chose to use this photo:
3. I then went onto 'www.picmonkey.com' to edit my picture of my chosen band. Because my chosen photo was more rectangular than square i cropped the picture in half making two square pictures of the band making it easier for me to fit it into the different panels of the digi pack.
4. I used the different fonts available and put the name of the band and name of the album on each different half of the original picture. i looked through the different texts that where available to use on picmonkey.com. i looked out for an electronic font so i used the font 'Home Sweet' because it was the closest font to the electronic genre.
5. After i edited my first picture on picmonkey.com I put it into my digi pack template
6. I then searched for a back panel picture. I decided to stick with the black and white theme but show the electronic element by choosing a picture of lightning. Using picmonkey.com again i wrote the song titles on top on the background. The genre came through well in the song titles. I tried my best to use language you would expect to se in an electrical subject. for example 'Static Heartbeat' I chose this because it was electronic and scientific. another example i used was '21/12/12' for the final song on the album which is the date of what is believed to be the end of the world. Again I used the idea of science and electronic ideas to create names linking with the genre.
7. I then put a barcode and Facebook and Twitter links on the back cover showing that you could also find out more information about the band.
8. Finally i put all of the pictures together and added a picture of a CD to the CD panel and this is my final product:
I'm happy with my first trial of my Digi pack software because i think that i stick to the genre well. Although i do think i could hve sjown more of the electronic characteristics through the colour.