Lesson Overview 8/12/10 by Alex Brown

On Tuesday's Lesson we began designing the digipak. First of all was a class discussion, where we discussed the different conventions of a digipak, so we had an idea on what to do. We then went into our groups and started designing. We used the internet to find examples of other digipaks, as well as using some of the examples provided by Mr Compton. Laurence also provided the digipak for The Prodigy's 'The Dirtchamber', which we were also influenced by.

Meryl had posted on the blog the dimensions used in digipaks, which we used to create a paper plan on A3 paper. On the A3 paper, we drew 6 separate boxes which represent the 6 sides of a digipak.

We managed to roughly decide how we were going to design each side of the digipak.

For the front cover, we decided to use a picture of the bear sitting by a wall, along with the artist name and album name. For the back cover, we decided to use a picture of a brick wall, which is where the track

listing (in white font colour) will go. For the extra panel, we decided to use macro images of instruments (i.e. guitar, turntables, keyboards), which were provided by Laurence. For the left and right inside panels, we will be using black and blue abstract colours, and for the CD Tray we think we should us

e a still image from our video. We looked for fonts to use, and as a group we voted on which font to use, which we decided to be 'Letter Gothic Std'. We also decided the colour theme for our digipak. We decided with the black and blue colour scheme, which will be used in the images as well.