Initial Ideas for Digipak & Magazine

DIGIPAK

My initial idea was to create a digipak that would rememberable to the audience through bright eyed catching artistic based photos. I wanted to convey to the audience through the visualisation that my artist cared about the way they looked. As my music video was around 'swag.' I additionally wanted to approach to my audience the linkage between that song and the digipak. I then came to a conclusion that my songs would based about the way you looked and all about personality. I think this is a strong idea as it had relations to my genre; RnB and Hip-Hop. This is because many artist from that genre sing about them things. '50 cent - I get money.' or personality 'Nicki Minaj - Bad Bitch.'

The music that might be in the album has been shone through the titles; as 50 cents - Get right die trying shows he might talk about life issues; people need to get money (hustling enabling to get money.) In Nicki Minaj's - Its Barbie Bitch there is a contrast and that title connotes that the album may have a lot of swearing and a lot of attitude. Both are 'Parental Advisory' I thought I would include this also for my digipak as many Hip-hop artists would have this on their album however many groups don't but it shows that my group is different from the stereotypical girl group.

STRUCTURE
I decided to create a single 6 panel digipak as I thought the photos and what was actually on the panels were most important. I researched on Digipaks on Youtube and came across this video showing U2 -'No line on the horizon' layout of their digipak. They reason why I was so attached to this digipaks structure is because it was unique to the typical 6-8 panels full of photos for example. This gave me the idea to include a booklet on top of the second inside panel on the digipak (same place as the U2's one.) I also thought It was creative and made things more different. I feel that this can be in relation to making my own digipak due to the interpretations wanted for my buyers to receive; fresh and different. This goes perfectly to music video as we included 'swag' meaning 'fresh' or 'new.'




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Initial Ideas something colourful, bright. I looked at RNB, Hip Hop artists such as Lil wayne who had creative front covers. Alternatively, I looked at a website at images (available below) which showed what shots to use i.e. close ups to emphasis the facial expressions or long shots to emphasis the costume.


Looked on Youtube, I found out from this music video

PHOTOS OF INFLUENCE FOR DIGIPAK AND MAGAZINE

Here are some photos for Keri Hilsons new album 'No Boys aloud.' These photos influenced me deeply as her photos are very feminine and I loved the mirror idea of the reflection. I thought this would be a good idea to put a photo like this in my digipak as It would remind the audience of the video and the mirror relates to 'swagger' and caring about how you look.

I love this photo especially as I feel that these poses look like the poses my group would do and I like the background of (bit of graffiti) relating to the codes and conventions of the genre.

It gave me an idea to take a photo in an exterior area, to be more specific, grafitti area to reflect on the codes and conventions.

This is the Album Cover for the upcoming album to be released. I like this album cover because I like that the album is called No Boys Allowed and shows this through a warning line. I also like the symbolism shown through the lip stick as it is supposed to be a cigarette. Additionally I love the effect of the cigarette, 'Keri Hilson' and warning line is in colour and the rest in black and white because it stands what Keri Hilson feels is most important on the cover.

COLLAGE

This is a collage I made on the computer which include album photo covers found on a website,
http://www.album-cover-art.org/.
These influenced me on what photos to take, i.e. close ups, use black and white effect or like photo four of cassie and editing use colours of pink, grayscale and black. I feel its effective as its orginal and stands the artist out.

 

MAGAZINE

My initial idea is to make my key information to get through to the audience, such as, 'out now', the name of the album.
My idea is to also to include a website including availabe downloads such as iTunes.
My idea was initially to have a 'Dime Divas' graffiti font to consistency flow with the location of the music video and the group work around the words. I would have emphasised the artist through the words and information.