Ideas for digipack cover

Rough Sketch of Digipack

This is a rough sketch of my ideas for the digipack cover, the top two images are the front and back and the bottom two images are the inside of the pack.

For the front cover I have used an extreme close up of the artists face, with text layed over: the artists name, Erica Shine, and the song

title, I will w

ait for you. This is a popular idea for the front of an album and is used by artists such as Leona Lewis and similar ideas are used by Pixie Lott, Black Eyed Peas, and La Roux.

This is Leona Lewis' album cover for her album Spirit. This is a very similar idea to my idea for the Erica Shine cover. It is a simple image and layout, but works well as the audience can straight away identify the audience. I think with our image, a brighter look would be more desirable. This can be achieved with makeup, image editing and the colour of background used. Although not a lot of the background is seen, I think that a white backg

round would brighten up the image, and would also fit with the brand image of innocence, created in the other products.

This is an album cover from La Roux. A more unique artist, and so the cover is more interesting. The principal idea is the same, a close up of her face, but interest is added by using a side view. Also this shows the artist's trademark hairstyle. The red background also looks much more striking than the leona lewis cover, and immediately grabs attention. I also like the use of lighting in this cover, her face has been made lighter than the rest of the image. This is probably difficult to achieve without professional lighting, but is a good idea. As with the leona lewis cover, the text is kept simple, meaning it stands out more. Because of the large images used, a lot of text in a fancy font would look too 'busy' and cluttered.

The black eyed peas also used a similar idea on the cover to their latest album, The END, they used a robot style face which was green. This fits with the electronic sounds of their music, and once again is eye catching and unique. This however, would not be appropriate for our album cover, and would be very difficult to re-create. (the image was unable to upload)

For the back cover of the digipack I originally thought of an image of the artist, the photos and a track list, which is what I have drawn above. However, I think that the image of the artist looking over her shoulder with the clock would be better, as it is more unique. I also think it will be easier to see the track list with one simpler image rather than my original idea.

for the inside, my ideas i have drawn I think would work well, but after thinking about it in more detail, I think that one large image stretching across both pages would be more stylish and appropriate. Perhaps an image of the artist led on grass with some photos would be appropriate, and would look more professional than two separate images.

As these are just rough sketches, there will most probably be changes to the original ideas to improve the product. Also some of the shots may not be possible such as shots in the grass as if the weather is bad, it will be very difficult. However, I think that these rough ideas, if possible, would work well on the digipack and would link well with the music video.