The idea started with the group's
chosen song name 'The Hunter'. From this name I thought that I could use
something menacing such as predatory animal.
Instantly I thought of the Medallion
from the video game Series 'The Witcher' (image 1). Although it was a good
picture and idea, I felt it would be too hard to recreate/imitate on my digipak
and I would end up with something that looked unprofessional. However, the
colour scheme of image 1 was extremely appealing to me and I felt that I could
use it effectively.
I continued to think of things
that has a similar colour scheme which I could gain ideas from. The first thing
that I thought of was the American Psycho cover (image 2), which incorporated a
white, black and red colour scheme. I liked the fact this cover image
used a limited amount of red, but it was effective. The red represented danger,
violence and aggression which suited my vision well. I continued to look at
other movies that adopted a similar colour scheme, in which case I found the
cover for the movie Seven (image 3).
In addition to the Blu-Ray cover
for the film, the poster (image 4) was very inspirational to the creation
of my digipak. It involves a tattered, old and creepy look which I liked very
much. Immediately, I knew that I would try to adopt this style onto my design.
From Image 4, the
development from this poster went nowhere and therefore I had to find something
else to take inspirations from.
Image 5 is the cover of Robert
Graysmith's novel, Zodiac. It is one of my favourite books and just happened to
follow a similar colour scheme to previous images. However, this was not the
reason I looked to this book for inspiration. The old aspect that was
found from the Seven poster (Image 4) was something that I wanted to emphasise
more research onto. In the novel/ movie a frequent occurrence of mysterious
symbols (Image 7) is relevant throughout. This gave me the idea of having
similar symbols being at the forefront of my digipak.
This idea was scrapped as I
wanted something that could relate to the album/song name to be present on
my design.
After looking at Zodiac, I
remembered a film called Prisoners (images 8-9), which similarly to Zodiac,
stared actor, Jake Gyllenhaal. Prisoners is a movie which, like Zodiac has a
mysterious feel to it. Once looking into Prisoners, I saw a frequent theme of
mazes occurring. The use of mazes interested me and looked very appealing on
the cover and poster for the movie. When thinking about mazes in movies
while looking at Prisoners I also thought of the movie Inception (Image
10).
Before going any further, I
decided to research into mazes further to see if I could link them with my
album in any way. I came across the Greek Mythological Story called the
Labyrinth (Images 11-13). In this story, The Labyrinth, an elaborate
structure designed and built by legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos Its
function was to hold the Minotaur (Image 14) eventually hunted down in the maze
by the hero, Theseus. I felt this was a good use of symbolism to compare
the characters in the mythological tale and the album.
Image 15 is first practice
attempt that I created to see if using the maze would look good on at final
piece and the main aspect of my digipak. Along with this I began searching for
more album covers that used a maze as their main feature. First I found a Pink
Floyd album -Labyrinth which provided a square maze look. I felt this looked
better on an album than the circular one that I had created and decided that I
would use a square maze rather than the circular ones that I had researched
prior.
I then found a greatest hit by
Maze ft. Frankie Beverly cover (Image 17) which used bordered of the maze
aspect into the middle of the page, and left whitespace free on the outside.
This look appealed to me greatly and reminded me of a number of modern day
albums that have include this style of artwork on their albums also (images
18-22).
After looking at different albums
that's artwork was minimized into the middle of the design, I decided that this
would be something that could be used on my digipak.
Image 22 is an album cover that I
used when analysing a number of various digipaks. The gold border on this
design is something that I liked. I thought that a mixture of worn out and neat
aspects could complement the digipak nicely. It's border also helps the artwork
it holds stand out far more effectively.
After the substantial research
that I completed, I was able to implement a number of various ideas from parts
of them to create my digipak design (Image 23). The design includes the
maze elements I researched thoroughly (Images 8-17) as well as the attractive
and violent colour scheme of Black and red (Images 1-6). My
design also confines its primary artwork in the centre of the page and uses a
red border around it, making the artwork look more appealing and stand
out. I also used the idea of implementing a worn, old and mysterious look
and feel to my design (Images 3,4,7,18,19,20), by adding noise and scratches to
my digipak.
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