Digipak Back Panel 2

Here is my final design of my digipak back panel. As planned, I kept the background the same colour, which helps to keep the consistency between the front cover and the back panel. Also, it is a relatively simple design as this has helped the names of songs stand out against the design. I added in a few bonus tracks as this was a convention I found most popular throughout all the other digipak and album cover back panels for many bands and artists.

Digipak Back Panel

Now that I have completed the front cover to my digipak, I have to create the back panel. I am going to use the same background as I did for the front cover to show the consistency throughout the whole digipak design, also I am going to keep the font of 'Impact' the same. The design on the back panel will be relatively simple to emphasize the song names and the bonus tracks featured on the album.

Digipak Front Cover

Here is the final draft of my digipak front cover, here you can see that I still decided to use the silver bland background. The design is a guitar which makes it unambiguous to my audience that this album consists of music from the pop/rock genre. Also, the way that the silver colouring becomes more luminous towards the centre makes the guitar appear to have a glow. I also, still used the band name that I constructed. The use of the white borderline around the black writing of the name makes it appear more striking to the viewers attention, which could also contribute to the idea of lightning. The name of the album is towards the bottom right hand corner, also with the white borderline around it to make it appear more striking - this works in collaboration with the use of punctuation as this makes the album title sound more striking phonetically, therefore the white borderline adds more effectiveness to the whole feel of the album name.

Digipak Background

I decided to use this as my background for my digipak as it is a relatively bland colour. This way, the words and the design that I am planning to use for my digipak front cover will stand out. Also, as it appears to be silvery and not just a plain white, this makes it simple, but not over simplistic to the extent that the background has no siginficance to unconsciously catching the eyes of the viewers.

Digipak Panels

I originally decided to make my digipak consist of 6 panels due to the fact that the majority of digipaks that I came across consisted of this amount of panels, even though my questionnaire results declared that most of the respondents would have preferred 4 panels. However, I have now come to realise that my questionnaire results were in fact most suitable, therefore I have changed my mind and decided to have a digipak that has 4 panels as this would be less time consuming. Also, I am not planning on having a narrative throughout the panels of my digipak, so I do not necessarily need to have 6 panels.

Image Ideas

Due to the fact that I wanted to use symbolic imagery on my digipak front cover, I thought that reseaching a range of images of the same kind of thing would be useful. The main image I wish to broadcast on my digipak is an electric guitar as this is very symbolic of my music genre at a first glimpse. Therefore, I researched these specific pictures. They are all relatively ordinary images, however, I plan on editing an image of a guitar into a different colour by using Photoshop, as this will make the plain image of this instrument more vibrant and contemporary for todays teenage audience.

Band Names

In order to create a captivating digipak I realised that the band name was essential as the band name is an aspect which helps to promote the whole group as well as the album on it's own, apart from the actual name of the album. I looked at areas of interest to my target audience and tried to use key words from particular areas of interest to help me gain an intriguing yet enticing band name which is different to what is out on the market currently. I looked at names around "power" and "energy". This would not necessarily be classified as an area of interest for my target audience as such, however, Pop/Rock bands would like to generate a feel of power and energy about their band name as well as the aura they might let out towards their audience. This is an aspect which I would suggest all bands aim to have and not just Pop/Rock bands. Also, I looked into the area of film, since films might have names that are inviting to their specific target audience, plus film names could possibly be passed off as band names and the audience might not even tell the difference. An example I chose for a film which could have had the potential to be a band name was "Twilight". Many people, and many other target audiences are aware of this film, and in my opinion this is an inspirational name of a film that could be useful for a band name. One last area of inspirational I analysed into was different areas, in this I mean location, for example, the rock band "Children of Bodom" named their band after a lake called "Lake Bodom". Another band is "Linkin Park" which I am guessing they named after some kind of park, these are reasons why I looked into this particular area for inspiration. Overall I came to like the name "The Lightning" for a band. Therefore, this is my chosen name for the band's digipak I am proposing to create.