Digi Pak-Front Cover

Conventionally Indie labels do not use a picture of the band as their front cover. However we had a lighthearted, fun picture of the band we wanted to use as it represents the idea of the video well; natural and non-linear. Indie is conventionally known as bands who play for the enjoyment of playing, the love of the music. We wanted to make our video in this way keeping subsidiary tasks to the same theme. To make the digi-pak front cover more conventional I worked on photoshop and added a gallery effect to make the image cartoon like, with bright neon colours to make it stand out against the black. A theme for our digi pak was 'Carpet Monster' interpretations. This was inspired by a band member, who is a teacher, and asked her class to collectively draw what they think a 'Carpet Monster' would look like. The original Carpet Monster, the kids came up with, we used on the front cover as this is where the inspiration came from for the rest of the digi-pak covers! Obviously it is important to add the name of the band, so the digi-pak is easily identified, and the album name, so people knew what album they were buying. We decided the names would be best in white to stand out from allthe colours.

Above are the Jamie T and The Wombats CD covers. The artist and this band both come under the Indie, Indpendant, label. Both front covers are light-hearted, fun and interesting to look at with alot going on. Initially everything can't be taken in, the more you look the more you see. We kept conventionally to this idea, but breaking it slightly by having a picture of the band. However our digi-pak cover may be perceived as quite dark, primarily being black, which does not suit the theme of our video and subsidiary tasks. The effect creating the neons meant for a darker background. Perhaps to make the cover suit our theme better we could have considered changing the colour e.g. to white as the neons would still stand out.