HG: Digipak Process 5

I have made significant progress on this particular image. I have managed to input the list of tracks, as well as the record label, barcode and production details. In the lesson, after doing further research into Jack Garratt, I discovered than Remnants was in fact an EP, rather than an official album. Also, I found that Garratt has announced his first album release date, along with the name of the album (Phase) and the 13 tracks included. Consequently, I created a text layer for each piece of text, so that I was able to move each track around. Also, I decided to position the track list along the outline of the headphones, to make it look more visually appealing.

In terms of the barcode, I simply added one from google by using the select tool, and copying it straight into the pane, the same also applied for the British record label Island Records. Furthermore, I used an album named ‘Submarine’ to get some expertise about the production details small print where I found that I needed to put in where the album was made, and the website, as well as claiming the copyright. Lastly, I have slightly altered the positioning of the main text ‘Jack Garratt’ putting on one line instead of two.

This image has been taken from our music video piece on premiere, due to being a very effective shot in terms of framing and composition. We would like to use this shot over our two inside middle panes for our digipak, after taking advice from Humbugs  (the Arctic Monkeys album), where they also used a landscape shot across both panes. I used many effects to make the shot look even more solemn and dejected. This included the Density tool to  bring out underexposed or dark areas of an image. As well as this, I used the levels tool to move and stretch the brightness levels of the image. It has the power to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range and I was therefore able to expose certain areas such as the lower right-hand-side of the image. I also used the colour balance tool to ensure that one colour dominates the frame, I chose a dark grey colour for this effect. Furthermore, I also increased the contrast vastly, and lowered the saturation .