I used white in most aspects on my covers. The snowy white path, the white text and the filter I used on Photoshop. However, I didn't want to make my final product hard to follow like the other covers. With the Travis album cover, the band is included however they are not very noticeable and are hard to notice. The Killers album cover is complicated and a little opposing with its woodland setting and glamours writing. I wanted to create a simple album cover that did not confuse people.
On my final front cover, there is not a lot of text included. The only text on this cover is the artists name and single title. This is the only writing I felt was needed to be included. I placed the writing in the corner of the image in between the two females in my image. This meant that all the focus was pushed to the writing. I also chose the colour of the writing as white as this matched my final product of a white theme. The image used on my front cover included a snowy white path which I emphasised using Photoshop.
On my back cover, a lot more writing is used. The writing on the back cover includes song tracks, websites and writing about copyright, all things that you would expect to find on a back cover. I decided to create the same effect as the one on the front cover so I created another mirror image and placed the writing in the middle to draw attention to it. The white theme is also continued on the back cover to give my final product an overall look.
On my back cover, a lot more writing is used. The writing on the back cover includes song tracks, websites and writing about copyright, all things that you would expect to find on a back cover. I decided to create the same effect as the one on the front cover so I created another mirror image and placed the writing in the middle to draw attention to it. The white theme is also continued on the back cover to give my final product an overall look.
My inner left panel does not have any text included on it. This was because I wanted to set a scene and so only included a picture of the woods. I also made sure to include the snowy white path so that white theme continued on.
My inner right panel includes song lyrics from When You're Dreaming With A Broken Heart. The white theme is continued on however I chose to write this text in italics as it gives the overall inner right panel a calmer feel to it where as the front and back cover make more of a statement.
For my front cover, I was happy to see that I received mainly positive feedback. From this I learnt that people thought the mirroring of the image was effective and commented on the fact that the two females made the focus be mainly on the centre. This is where I placed the artist name and single title. From this feedback, learnt that using other points of an image to draw the focus to a certain point is easily done and can be very effective. This is a common aspect of John Mayer covers which can be seen in the example below.
Each square on this cover draws the focus to John Mayer himself.
I also received mainly positive feedback for my back cover. People commented on the use of mirroring again and also commented on how they liked how I filled the space. However, one comment suggested changing Includes When You're Dreaming With A Broken Heart Music Video into italics as she was confused thinking it was a song title. This is something I would have down differently to avoid confusion.
For my inner left panel, the comments left were pretty vague. This was down to people not knowing what to comment on as there is not a lot going on in this image. From this I have learnt that I would need to use and fill the space better to draw attention to it.
For my inner right panel, comments were left saying the only improvement needed to be made was to the writing. They said although it was a good size, they said they found it quite difficult to read. From this I have learnt that I need to make sure that all writing can be read by all and not just myself.
When constructing my digipak, the two main components used were my camera, to take the photos that I would use on my covers and Photoshop, which I used to create the final product. I found using there two components very simple as I have used them plenty in the past. I decided to use Photoshop as i have used it in the past and no my way around the program. This meant I was able to create my final product to the best of my abilities and I didn't have to worry about learning how to use the program.
When researching other digipaks, I used two main websites to gather examples. I used GoogleImages to gather random examples and I used cdcover.cc to gather specific examples. GoogleImages allowed me to gather examples from all genres whereas cdcovers.cc allowed me to gather specific examples for my genre. I found cdcovers.cc more useful as I was able to gather specific examples from bands and artists I knew were in my genre.
When planning my digipak, I used the two websites mentioned about to find out what the key features were that were included on digipaks in the same genre. With this information, I designed 3 possible final products to that I had a variety to chose from. I also used the Internet to research previous John Mayer album covers so that I could gather pieces that all album covers have in common and include some of there in my planning work. This gave all John Mayer album cases something in common.
When evaluating my digipak, the only media technology needed was a computer as I need one to access blogger to upload my evaluation.
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