Digipak Planning

We planned our digipak, firstly by researching and discussing our likes and dislike. We decided that purple would be our main colour as it would match the title and also from research we will put the protagonist Bella’s Face on the album. This is an important part of the production process as this will advertise the music.    

For the front cover of our album cover, we decided to have a medium close up of the protagonist’s face place in the centre of the frame. Bella will be looking straight into the camera and will show very little expression on her face for a powerful effect. To make the cover more unique and eye catching, she will have a purple and pink paint splatter over one half of her body/face to add contrast. The luminous purple lit background links to the ‘hit single’, our music video. We will use a spot light on the protagonist’s face in order to add definition and improve the quality of the image. ‘Jerry Folk’, the artists name, will be placed along Bella’s chest in his generic font in black to make it stand out. The black font will match the black in the protagonists clothing. To finish front panel, we will add the title of the album ‘Purple Feelings’ along the top in a bold white font to stand out upon the purple lit background.

The side panel will carry on the purple luminous background and some faint paint splatter effects. ‘Purple Feelings’ will be written down the side in the same front and colour used on the front panel. The word ‘Purple’ will be written in a slightly bolder font than ‘Feelings’ as we decided that is was a softer word that connotes more emotion than ‘Purple’.

For the back panel of our digipak, we decided to use the same luminous gradient on the front panel of fading white to purple to add continuity. Starting in the top left corner, we will list the songs included in the album. This text will be white and in the same font to the once used for the title. The colour of text will remain white as we decided this tone looked the most aesthetically pleasing upon the purple background. There will be a smaller medium close up of the protagonist’s face in the bottom right of the panel. This will be a side/diagonal shot of Bella’s face showing both paint and pure skin. Just like other albums, the barcode for sales and company logos will be found on the bottom left of the frame. This will make our album cover look authentic.

The inside of the digipak has 2 parts, the disk and inside cover.

The inside of the album will be plain luminous purple, created in post-production, with a gradient of white in the centre fading out steeply to purple. A paint splatter/explosion effect will be seen on one half of the panel on top of the background to continue our paint theme. No text will be found on this part of the pack.

The disk will be constant with the other panel backgrounds with pink and purple powder paint effects upon it like Bella has on her face. This will filter down the disk from the centre hole which will keep the theme going throughout the whole digipak. The name of the album and artist will be applied to the top half of the disk in the centre and will be in the same font as used on the front, however, the text will be in a matching purple colour instead of white and this will add contrast to the disk and cover.