Album Digipak Initial Ideas

Initially, as the magazine advertisement will feature the main protagonist, we thought that the album digipak should too, to make them obviously linked. We would use the same frame of her sat with a guitar and a dark background for emphasis.

To have an idea of what the band, Fickle Friends, is like, I researched into their album covers to see if they had reoccurring themes, colours and fonts.
It is clear to see their covers have a similar theme. Most of their covers featured a girl, where the photo is distorted and edited, such as her face being removed or blurred. They have a range of colours on them, with the text including the band name and a single on that album, both using the same fonts.

As well as featuring the girl, they also use quite abstract covers, having a bright background contradicting with the dark coloured leaves. As the image takes up the whole frame, the font is larger and more prominent. 

Initial Ideas

Therefore, I came up with some initial ideas by taking into consideration the bands' themes and the story of our music video. 

Idea 1

This idea is heavily based on the song name of 'Vanilla' as it features a vanilla flower. As well as this, I was inspired by the bands' album covers of the leaves as I thought the minimalistic image along with the font was effective, without giving away too much about the album, but suggests the alternative genre. 

Idea 2

This idea reflects on the music video of how the main protagonist writes a song and tries to get it produced, and how many trials and errors it takes to get the song write. Therefore, this is shown through the scraps of paper.

Idea 3

As our video is of the narrative basis, so one of our ideas is to have a photo of her looking straight at the camera with a straight face. The background would be plain black with a single spotlight on her, emphasising that she is the main focus. The inside cover features her guitar and a lyric of the song, portraying how music is a big part of her life.