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As I began creating my Digipak I had to think about what sort of imagery the music on my CD would make people imagine , so I began making a list of some of the characteristics and traits that the music contains.

-Electronic

-Upbeat

-Modern

-Dark

-Urban

-Dance

-Party

It needs to have an urban , street , young , modern feel to it as these are the traits that my demographic look for in their media products. 

Another important thing that I wanted to try and tie into the Digipak was the graffiti that influenced me and my music , so I began gathering some images online so I had a point of reference whilst creating the Digipak.

I wanted the Digipak to have clean and simple look to it ,I feel that simplicity is of the most important things to bare in mind when working with imagery.

All these images sum up how I want my finished product to look , I want it to have a dark , grainy , urban gritty feel to it whilst at the same time remaining simple and effective.

Here are some example of album covers that are likely to influence me in the creative process.

I like the use of bright colours on the UKF poster and this is something I am likely to include in my Digipak , I also like the clear , simple and bold logo design that they have come up with.

The artic monkeys one stood out to me for the one reason that it is simple.

I also like the grainy , vintage sort of look that it carries.

This is an album created by Noisia and I think its a very clever and original idea.

Its this kind of new and original idea that makes CD's stand out more than others to a potential customer.

This is the second of the two UKF graphics and I prefer the use of colours in this one as their more eye catching than the green one.

This is the front cover for my 6 Page Digipak

Its simple , interesting and I have had some positive

feedback on it from other members of my class.

Using just simple editing techniques I tweaked the image

so that it fits in perfectly with the other pages of my Digipak.

 This was one of the Left Inside page that I designed

because I had to adjust the image so that

white text could be placed on top of it

whilst still allowing it to be readable.

I convereted this image to black and white as

I felt that it suited the Digipak better , the original

colours weren't really suited to the format but I

feel that this simple change had a dramatic effect.

I tweaked the contrast on the paint splats so that the

white stood out more on the black background.

I also applied a blur filter to this layer.

I changed this photo to black and white then applied

a blur filter too it.

I changed this image to greyscale and applied a few

different random artisic filters to try and get a nice

final image and I feel that it worked.

In conclusion I think that my Digipak came together very

 well and I am pleased with the end result , throughout this

project I have developed my skills in photoshop and Indesign

and will be using them in the future to design artwork , 

Digipaks and album covers for my independant record label.

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