Digipak design

I just drew out a (hopefully) final design for our digipak. I tried to develop on my previous idea by incorporating birds, which is something my group and I agreed would work well. However I thought that the previous design may have seemed a little plain if it were just a hand-drawn sketch especially as it was of birds in the distance. In order to make the digipak cover more interesting I decided to sketch only two birds from a closer perspective.

The birds will link into our music video's narrative rather than the band's line-up as previously planned.

I also thought that the image may not be eye-catching enough to gain attention from our audience as grey pencil against white is not entirely bright or grabbing to anybody passing by. In order to build upon this I decided to open up the file in an image manipulation programme and try to boost the contrast whilst also editing the hue and saturation of the image in order to change colour and brightness.  the result was this:

I feel that the brown hue I have applied to the image, combined with the increased contrast and decreased brightness gives a rustic and vintage effect to the original image which is appropriate for our genre. I feel that it also solves the aforementioned issue of how eye-catching the digipak cover will be.

I toyed around with other colours:

Green was, in my opinion, Also a good choice as it would match the image of the suitcase on grass that we were planning on using for the rear digipak cover. However I feel that it looks less vintage/rustic and more artificial. However I have saved both so the rest of my group can share their opinion.

I also chose to leave in previous erased sketching mistakes that the scanner picked up instead of using the blur tool to get rid of them. I think it adds a degree of imperfection to the image that complements the vintage/rustic look I was hoping for. It can also symbolise that mistakes are often made (which is a point of plot for our videos narrative)