On Sunday 12th December, I decided to work at home on our digipak for Unkle's album, 'Psyence Fiction' in preparation for the next media lesson when we would be using a computer as a group to complete the design template.
In the plans for our digipak, we planned on having a picture of various instruments in a studio on one of the pages. Because I produce music, I already had some studio equipment available in one of the rooms of my house. As a result, I was able to take pictures of my MIDI keyboard, my turntables, my guitar and my microphone to use as pictures on the page in the digipak. I waited until it was dark to do this so I could use flash on the camera and enhance the shadowy atmosphere of the imagery.
I also have Adobe Photoshop, which we would also be using at school. I have had previous experience in using this software, including for Media coursework in GCSE, so many of the features were not unknown to me. There is a tool known as 'brushes' on Photoshop, and in this folder, it is possible to import images and art which you can 'brush' over your project in your preferred colour, size and position. Fortunately I already had some brushes which I had legally downloaded previously, and I manipulated them into ways which would be appealing and applicable for the inside pages of the digipak. The tone of the digipak design and the conventions of the album were considered throughout this process which took many hours to complete, and I was able to take this work, as well as the shots of the studio instruments to class the next day after saving everything onto a flash drive.
Below are some work in progress pictures which show my work on inner pages of the digipak design in chronological order:
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