Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Development of reverse digipak panel - newsboard

My initial idea was to use an enlarged image of a slanted news board for the reverse cover of my digipak, as shown in a previous post. I have since experimented with various pictures I have taken outside local shops, and have found a different, yet very similar idea to be more effective.

Rather than using an entire news board for the reverse side, I will most likely use one of the images I have taken of a 2-dimensional news board against a brick wall. This idea has proved to be far more practical as using a 3-dimensional board posed the issue of getting the correct angle and size to fit the entire image so that you can still read the writing on the news board, whilst still having enough room to fit the track titles, being the initial idea. One shot I have taken is shown below. It was particularly difficult to achieve a good angle to fit the whole of the board on the screen of the camera.

Minimal amount of news board visible, and not enough room in which to place track titles.


Instead, these are a few I have taken on the board against the brick wall. One bonus of this progression of ideas is that the bricks can connote the urban atmosphere in which the majority of the music video itself was shot, and is fitting to the ska genre and youthful, urban target audience I am trying to appeal to. I can now also use the individual bricks as a method of showing the track names of the E.P. I can use Adobe Photoshop to insert text onto the bricks to make them look as though graffiti writing has been painted on them, as shown below. Development on this graffiti idea is shown in the previous post when analysing the 'Does it offend you, yeah?' album artwork.

Original shot of a news board against brick wall, greater space for track names to be shown, and bricks connote urban culture.

Photoshop can be used to remove original headline writing from image, using 'clone stamp' tool.

Photoshop can be utilised further to remove all writing, add effects to brick work, posterize news board to give bold, comic-like effect that is fitting of the genre, and text inserted on bricks to show track names as if graffiti.

This image is close to what i propose to be the final design for the reverse of my digipak.

2 comments:

  1. Evidence here of thoughtful planning with your ideas strongly evaluated. I like this design idea - I think the idea of the newspaper board gives you an oppportunity to have a poke at bankers thus grounding your productions in contemporary debates. "Money grabbing women" reinforces the misogynist ideology of the tabloid press!! Have a think about it.

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  2. Overall excellent planning of your digipak with detailed and intelligent evaluation of ideas and strong references to the cotemporary political climate. Well done Ben.

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