Planning for Digipak.

I started by figuring out the size of a normal Digipak cover and creating a paper template to fit these sizes. The margin on the left is bigger to accommodate the hinge of the Digipak.

This is the front cover of my digipak, obviously I will use photos in the final piece, this is just a rough plan so that I can see what I am doing. I have used a type writer-style font to link with my pop-rock genre and also to link with previous album covers that McFly have released. In the final piece there will be trees in the background. I made the McFly logo orange to go with my colour scheme. This logo is in the wrong font because I forgot to change it, but the logos throughout the rest of the digipak show how it will actually look.

This is the back cover of my digipak, the real thing will have a photo rather than stickmen on it obviously. I added a bar code to make it look more realistic. I used the font Courier New in size 10 in the end and I made it blue to look like blue ink so that it appears informal and hand-written/typed. This is where the track list will be, and I have made it look like torn note paper to link with McFly's previous album covers. The umbrellas will also be different colours/styles in the real thing but I haven't coloured them because I am not sure what umbrellas we have available to us to use yet.

This is where the band information and tour dates will go. The random letters represent band info and I have tried to create a lanyard shape (I will obviously use a photo of a plain lanyard for the final piece) to write the tour dates on (there will also be actual dates on the real thing). It is supposed to look like a VIP pass which is why I used red because it is an important-looking colour and it is also part of my colour scheme. This is how the McFly logo is going to look. I used the font ConcursoItalian BTN because I think it makes the logo look sort of simple and hand written to go with my genre. I might make the background coloured so that it makes the lanyard tag stand out.

This is the inside of the digipak, it is where the song lyrics will be written. The background is a pretty, light, picnic blanket effect. I will take a photo of a picnic blanket for the final piece so that it is all my own work, but this plaid pattern shows what it will look like. I will also take my own photos for the picture frames that the lyrics will be typed in (in the same font). The titles show what song lyrics will go there. I'm a little anxious to see how they will fit in the boxes, but I will make it work.

 This is the middle panel and so it leads on from the last one. It is basically the same really, but all of the frames will be different sizes and shapes to link with the randomness and simplicity of my genre and obviously different lyrics will be written in these frames.

 This is the final piece in of the inside panel. The background obviously leads on from the other panels. This is where the CD itself will sit in the final piece, not just a picture of it. The CD will have a photo of the iconic tree scene on it (the same as the front cover but without the band members in it). I could copy an image of what the CD looks like to put underneath it so that the customer will be able to easily see where the disk go and also which CD belongs in this case, but I don't want to do that because the simplicity of this design links with my genre.