aspect of research,ancillary work,photoshop tutorial lesson.

final product

whilst editing, shown in screenshot are different layers

today we had to show our photoshop skills in lesson,we first watched a tutorial given to us by a media technician and then put our skills to the test by creating a digipak/album cover on a previously made layout. Because i already had previous experience working with photoshop and designing with photoshop i found this task quite simple, i already knew my taste in designs (simple but effective) so i had already planned what i was going to do next. i wanted to use colours that did not complement each other but actually clash and stand out from one another(causing the prominent/striking effect) so i combined a pure faded shade of grey with a rich full vivid colour,red, my choice was quite influenced by the artist kanye west's album cover of 808's and heartbreaks(which is in the same genre as my choice of music video and this test digipak) 

808's and heartbreaks album:Kanye west

by analysing many other digipaks i quickly came to the conclusion that convential digipaks often have the artists face at the front of the album cover (the face most of the time is a close up of the artist), and the artists name in big bold font at the top, with the album name in smaller font usually at the bottom of the cover. So going by this convention i chose to put a close up of my chosen artists face at the front of the cover (travis scott) and the artists name in bold large font above the image, the artists first letter of his name "t" is replaced with a cross associated with the religion christianity, not only did i choose to use this because of the cross looking like a T but because the artist has a few songs which are influenced by christianity, god and prayer, such as the first song on his album "days before the rodeo" "PRAYER", i found this quite effective and it showed some synergy and consistency on a deeper level.

for the back of the album cover i wanted to keep it simple, so i had the executuive producers name (giving him credit) and left the corporation (label) at the bottom with the artists website alongside it ( a space in between both) and the barcode on the bottom right hand side. overall i went for a uniform,symmetrical and consistent look which gave me what i intended to end up with, a simple but effective digipak.