Ancillary- Digipak and album advert planning

As well as a music video, I am creating a digipak for the song and an album cover as well as part of the ancillary task. I am creating my digipak off of Kavinsky's album "Outrun" and specifically looking at the cover for Nightcall. I will also look at other Synthpop music album covers and digipaks to identify features and/or conventions I would like to apply to my digipak.

From these, I will draw from the male face present on the righthand side of the cover of Nightcall and will position the text in a similar fashion. I do not believe that I will use the same color scheme as this would contrast with my music video and is quite a unique style for these covers. I plan to use similar looking text to the Outrun album cover.

I found that the album cover that Tove Lo's "Habits" was released under (titled "Queen of the Clouds") is (like Kavinsky's cover for Nightcall and the cover for Royals) quite confrontational with a female face looking directly forward towards the audience. Additionally, this cover uses a black and white color scheme that I plan on using on my digipak.






Looking at other Synthpop music video covers, I have found a style from the cover "LORDE - ROYALS (CAKEDUP REMIX)" where there is a split design in the person's face that I feel would work for my album advert where I plan to vary slightly from this example and create a vertical split between the male and female's face.








I plan to use images taken during the filming period and so will not have to take any more shots at this point. My plan is to use the male's face for the front cover (present with the album's title at the top), a shot of the woman on the back cover with the list of songs from the album (as well as other details like copyright, websites and a barcode). For the interior left page I plan to have a credit page and then a shot of the back of the man's head for the disk tray cover page.

For my front cover, I considered using this cover with the man having a red eye just as the cover for "Nightcall" has. However, I ultimately decided against this as I felt that it did not fit in with the mostly black and white style of the other parts of the digipak. I also felt this detracted away from the color in the titles for "Kavinsky Outrun".






For my album advert, I plan on creating the advert design by combining artwork from my digipak, Looking at this example of an album advert, I have identified elements that I may apply in my album advert, ensuring it is encompassing of conventions of its genre.