How I made the digipak

I then decided after discussions with my group that the snow shoots would make a better front album cover because they reflect scenes from the video more and reflect the genre of pop and indie well. 

The front cover needed minimal editing to the photograph, all I did for it was to crop the photograph down slightly (shown below in Photoshop) to make it closer to the artist as in general pop artists have very close up photographs of just their face for their album covers. I then also added the title and artist name in a girly font in a natural colour (green/brown) to match the indie theme of the song.

For the back cover of the album cover I used a photograph from our first day of filming in the studio. When I took the photograph I purposely made the camera take the photo out of focus so that the lights became noticeably blurred as well as the artist. I like this technique, it adds a magical feel to the image. I also changed the colour balance of the album cover in Photoshop, this is shown in the screen shot below. I wanted to give it a hint of green to reflect the natural, indie style of song.

I then added the song listing to the back cover to match the conventions of existing album covers sold today. This is shown in the screen shot below, i chose a font that is quite soft and girly to match the delicate nature of the song. I also added the bar code and company logo so that the cover again reflects conventions of existing albums and is a believable product to be sold.

The next step to making the album was to make the two inside covers for where the CD itself actually goes. I wanted to keep these quite simple and to match the existing back and front covers. For the first panel I used a photograph taken on the day of outside snow filming. It is a photograph of the couples hands held together with the snow in the background. I used this photograph because it matches scenes from the music video and hopefully people will recognise this. I wanted to keep it plain and simple so I didn't edit the photo in anyway apart from cropping it down to the right size for inside the album cover. (Shown below in a Photoshop screenshot.) 

For the second inside cover I chose to match it to the back cover so that each inlay matched the outside cover. I used another photograph from the inside filming day, this time one of just the lights. For this photograph i used the same technique when I took it so that it gives the same blurred, mystical look. I also edited the colour balance again to the same subtle green tint to reflect the Indie style of the song.