Created Digi-Pak Panels

Front Panel This is the front cover for the digi-pak. The main feature of this image is that of the artist as the main focus, to show her in a positive light and give a basic insight for as to what her music is like. This portrayed from the background imagery of the forrest, which is commonly related to the folk/country genre. The white font used in the image is clear to read and writtten in a trendy yet feminene style. The slightly smaller writing is that of the album/E.P title, which like the artist name stands out. Inside Panel (Right) The insert panel which is the image behind the disc, is taken from the music video itself. It was taken during a transition between a cross-fade of a the sun and guitar close-up. This works well as an image as it captures folk aspects through the concept of nature and the instrument. Inside Panel (Left) Again taken from the music video, this image shows the idea of performance, something which the artist is keen upon. Like the other inside image, it to is a transtion that wasn't edited at all. Back Panel

Completed Music Video (Final Cut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mSPPLw0v4

Looking at promotion images for bands

Looking at a recent album release. White Lies released their second studio album "Ritual". The band were promoted by UK tycoon music Store HMV.

Promotion pictures such as these are a great way of promoting new albums or smaller/breakthrough acts.
With the White Lies image (Right) shows a London store giving details to the fact the band are playing live to promote the new album. The main feature of the image is that of the actual band. It also features the front panel of the digi-pak to market the product.
As the image is copyrighted the HMV logo and slogan also appear on the poster as to.

Chosen artist title font

Above is the font I have chosen to use for the artist title for the digi-pak. Despite all of the fonts I had looked into and put forward as ideas, I have decided to use the Edition font which, along with the others, were collected from http://www.dafont.com/.
I have chosen this font because of it's simplicity.
The simple design of the font makes it easy to read and clear. I would consider editing this title futher, possibly with a change of colour. maybe that of being red, which would relate to the artists red ribbon on her guitar.

Possible Idea's regarding artist title (Digi-Pak)

These are some of the fonts I have chosen as a possiblity for my the artists name. This artist title will feature on the Front panel of the digipaks we are designing. As of yet these are the un-edited forms as I don't know whether black will be suitable for the front panel.






Hadley font











Edition font
















Carrington font













Calligraphy Unicase font

Branching Mouse font

www.dafont.com

http://www.dafont.com/
dafont is site which allows people of uploaded designed fonts by themselves, for anyone to then use and access for there own personal use. This is a great site for the creating text logo's or for getting a unique font. Therefore I will be using it for my digi-pak to write the artist name and name of the album which will be given to it.

Examples of the fonts used as ideas shall be uploaded onto my blog. Where I shall then analyze them before making a final desion on the final choice for my blog.

Looking into digi-pak fonts (Information)

When looking at album covers one key aspect of them is the titles. What makes the titles however is that of the font used to display the band name or group. For certain types of genres for instance there are often conventional fonts, with similarities with some artists/groups relating to which genre they belong to. Fonts often make up band logo’s which can then be edited to be unique and indifferent to others. This sort of distinction can reflect the artist/bands genre like with album artworks.
If the correct style of font isn’t used on the album cover it can affect how the looks. A downfall to album artwork designs is that of if a font is a innopropiate size or colour which the reciever won't be able to read it as it may conflict with the background colours, or the font is to bunched etc:. If this occurs it can have a poor effect on the record. Positioning of the font is also crucial as it to can damage the main image panel.

Looking at fonts on album covers (Folk genre)

The font for the album cover 'Baptism' by Joan Baez is a great example for looking into fonts used by certain artists of the folk genre, considering she is regarded as insperational artist by 'Mayenna Plastow-Smed', that artist I have created the music video for. The font for this album cover appears to be rather free-flowing which relates to the relaxed approach with the genre. Rumoured to be her signiture once, the font was created by a local artist that Baez knew. Despite looking free-flowing, in a way the black font also quite feminane, something which is often used by female artists of any genre. The black font on the beige canvas colour implies an artistic form/style that could relate to the genre.