Digipak Inspiration

I have taken inspiration heavily from the album cover of The Automatic - This Is A Fix; this is because the band are an alternative/indie/rock band, not of a similar sound to mine but in the same genre style. There are also four band members in the band and none of them are shown on the cover, this is the type of CD cover that I have decided to go for - using the band on the cover for my first draft was too boring and not exciting enough for the fresh band, The Skeleton Boys.

This album cover is a take on a weird film with the theme of big black shapes that appear in random places, the inside of the digipak booklet features multiple locations with the large black object in various shapes around the photographs. This is a creepy album cover due to the black object but also the use of children on the front playing 'ring a ring a roses' makes it even more edgy and peculiar. 

Similar Digipaks To Mine

I have styled the idea for my digipak around the idea of the Arctic Monkey's album Favourite Worst Nightmare. You open one panel, then a second panel to reveal 3 panels and the CD in the middle. I have chosen to do this because I think it's the easiest layout of a digipak to work with and can if you want it can look quite symmetrical- which to me is always a good thing. It was also the easiest layout to work out when I was trying to find out what went where on a six paneled digipak. 

Storm Thorgerson

I created a SlideShare Powerpoint presentation about the artist, Storm Thorgerson, this was after being recommended to look at his work. I am pleased with what I found from his artwork as well as existing album covers, my inspiration is explained briefly in this short slideshow.

Storm Thorgerson

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Inspiration For An Album Cover

After researching skeleton related images, but being careful that they don't appear to gothic looking and giving the wrong impression that the band is dark and gloomy, I came across this image. I think I might use a similar idea to the image. Initially I will sketch out how I want it to look and I could have each member as a different coloured skeleton but to make it different to this I'd have them the same sizes they are and have a more cartoon effect than x-rays. My next task is to get drawing the skeletons!

Inspirational Album Covers

I have collected together 12 of my favourite album covers of the indie/alternative/rock genre. I have put them all together as an image to make it easier to see the contrasts and similarities between them all. I hope to use these all as inspiration for my draft versions but I wish to make my designs original and not copy any particular layouts or features of any existing products.

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Stop Motion Experimenting

Here, i've created a stop motion video just to see what is possible for our music video, also, this could be used for further inspiration in our video.

Inspiration For Music Video

I saw this advert on the television years ago, and in a way, it's abstract nature had many people mimicking it. I want our music video to have qualities like this, our video is going to be interesting and abstract, and hopefully people will take to it as they have this advert.