DIGIPAK DRAFT

Digipak draft
This is basically exactly the same to my most recent draft however I have altered the front image text slightly by using the cut out effect taken from mesh cloth. This directly relates back to the music video as the main feature is the mask man who also wears a mesh mask. 

PHOTOSHOP: magazine advert cut out fonts 2

Progressing on previous font design
How I have developed my idea
I have now developed my previous font design however still using the same font Helvetica Neue I have moved on from the straw idea but have now used screen shots taken from my footage and layered them on top of each other.
The new developed idea
To create a link between the song/music video and the mag advert and digipak I used the cut out font to portray the country side and the city. So as the title of the album is Captive city the text incorporates an image of the city, so a run down building as seen below. This is then layered on top of a natural image to represent the countryside. 

The image of the countryside surrounds the image of the city and therefore traps it much like the text which is trapping the image of the city unlike nature which is not confined to be the the shape of the text. This therefore links to the album title captive city as the city is being captured/restrained within the art work. The opacity is lowered to help the two images blend together.

Alternative images

I have also done this to a number of other images to create different effects. 

The bagman being inside the text makes him look very daunting and scary linking back to the intimidating portrayal of his character in the music video carrying on this scary image. He looks like is is peeking at the viewer through the text whole again linking to his stalker role in the video. Maybe the bagman is captive to the city. 

IDEAS: digipak-long exposure

Digipak front cover ideas- long exposure 
Using long exposure has been used before on album covers such as the indie band Electric city.

We like the idea because it is very simple but effective and it also fits well with our indie genre as its an alternative approach to a plain image.
Our idea
Would be to use long exposure but using a crowd of people or traffic. The bag man would be stood in amongst a group but they would all be blurred, using long exposure, and he would be clear and still. To fit with the album name 'Captive city' it would be in a city environment and he would looked maybe trapped in a sea of moving people. Also to connect all three forms together (Music video, digipak and mag ad) the
 follow on of the bagman from the video would to help secure a clear link. 

PLANNING: casting masked figure

Casting for the part of bagman
In Sly antics video Intro   they include a masked figure at the end 

to create a link between the two videos we wanted to follow on the story and include the masked man. As he is masked it didn't need to be the same actor playing the the masked man in our video so we chose someone who was around the same build and height so the two looked quite similar and the follow on would be obvious. That person happened to be my dad which was convenient as he was available on any date or time. 

IDEAS: digipak front cover

Digipak front cover idea
One idea is that to combine the video and digipak together would be to include the recurring theme of the masked man (Bagman). We could combine a close up image of one of the band members faces and replace half of it on photoshop with that of the bag man.
For example in kings of leon poster they combine aspects of the band members faces with that of an eagle.