R+P Post 24: Planning my digipak panels

When planning our digipak panels, my group researched a wide variety of existing album covers and listed the conventions we wanted to include in our designs. Our primary aims with these designs are for it to be eye-catching and to effectively promote our artists, AJ's, image.

Below are our flat plans for the front, back and inside covers:

Album art for the for and back covers

Album art for the inside covers

Front Cover

Similar to this R Kelly front cover, we plan to frame AJ a MCU with his head positioned at a diagonal and looking straight into the camera. The title of the album, 'Disclosure' will be in block capitals and white font; it will be positioned at the very bottom of this cover and will stretch the its entire length. In contrast, 'AJ' will have a more stylised/fancy font which will resemble a signature, thus appearing more creative and standing out from the covers other features. The background will be a grey colour and will not having anything going on, in order to keep full attention on the foreground.

Back Cover

The focal image of the back cover will be a long shot of AJ standing on the right side of the panel, whilst running his hand through his hair. After being inspired by this design from 'The Script' we decided on a moving picture created by changing transparencies throughout the action. This will make our album unique and in turn represent what AJ is about- a unique, new artist whose creativity makes him stand out above the rest.

Inside Left Panel

• Side Profile of AJ
• AJ's faced filled with words expressing his emotions, beliefs and thoughts about the album and his career
• Plain dark grey background
• Silvery white text

Inside Right Panel

• MCU of AJ
• Facing away from the camera
• Edited to black and white
• On location shot (Alley way seen in music video- Synergy)