POSTER RESEARCH

This is the poster for the album 'Contra' by the band Vampire Weekend. The simplicity of this poster is what made it so memorable and  think that the idea behind it could be interpreted in to our own work. Of course this woman would be replaced by Julide Ayger who featured in the music video.

As you can see in this poster, it is promoting a new single called 'Don't Look Back Into the Sun'. This poster includes a lot more detail as it not only includes the band and song name, but also the release date, other versions included and information stating that it is in fact the new single.

Digipack Research

This is the standard layout for a CD digipack which is the one we are most likely to use. It has three panels, includes a booklet and the CD. 

This is one style that could be used. Instead of folding out in to a straight line it opens up on each side of the cd with each panel displaying images. There is also a booklet with all the lyrics plus various information inside a pocket on one of the panels.

This has the similar concept although instead of being a CD digipack it is a record album. This particular album opens up as a book with each page displaying all the lyrics with additional information and artwork, also followed by the record itself. As the song we have chosen to use in our media video was released within the record era it may even be an idea to produce it in this format.

Candy Skull Front Cover DRAFT

    FIRST DRAFT:

    SECOND DRAFT:

I filled in some of the gap around the mouth. I plan to colour the skull in soon to see how it'll look. If it doesn't look particularly nice, I'll start again. After it's coloured in, i shall scan the picture and use editing software to make it look more professional.

Ideas for the Digipak covers - Mexican Candy Skull

As we've previously said on the blog, the group plan to use a Mexican candy Skull design for one of the covers in the digipak. We eventually came up with the idea of drawing a candy skull onto a model (the girl who was featured in our music video) and use that as the front cover of our Digipak. 

Now, the only problem that we face is timing. We might not be able to get to her, paint her face and take the pictures that we need before Tuesday, which is the deadline for our Digipak so we've got a back up, which is using an actual skull drawing that we'll design ourselves. I've drawn a picture of a basic outline in the post before this and after i plan to modify it if my group want it to look different and colour it in with bright, vibrant colours like a conventional candy skull. 

Rough draft of our skull design

Rough Ideas for the Digipak

Research for front cover of Digipak

Initial Idea:

We used the outline from this skull for our own one. We really liked it as it wasn't too weird or scary but was just right and perfect for what we needed. We also tried to recreate the colour scheme of this skull because we really wanted to have a lot of colour with our own one to go along with the colourful Mexican theme.

We were going to use this skull as inspiration but the cheekbones were just too prominent. Although we did like the circle pattern around the eyes, similar to a few of the other skulls.

The above 2 images features crosses which we really liked. For some weird reason we decided to add this to our own skull and luckily it looks very good.

The above 2 images are of actual skulls with small beads glued onto them. They have a really tribal and are very colourful, especially the second one which we like.

We were draw to the red lips of this skull mainly as we feature red lipstick and lips in our video with our main girl, Julide. In our final image, we put red lips on our skull.

Second Idea:

If we were to paint a skull design on our model and main girl in the video, Julide we would have use the above image as our main inspiration. 

We later came across images of these girls who have painted skulls onto their faces, this idea was intriguing however it was not so practical for us as we only had a week left to compete everything. Although this would have been a good idea to use on our main girl who was in the music video, we decided not to go ahead with it, instead we went back to our first idea and created a hand drawing ourselves.