Progression of our Down in Mexico Skull drawing

ORIGINAL DRAWING:

FIRST DRAFT OF FRONT COVER:

With inspiration from the Mexican Candy Skulls, we produced our own image according to the style of our music video. This skull head, drawn and coloured by Alex Harvey, shows the image we are going for on our Digipak (Mexican). We researched the different types of skulls and Mexican candy skulls. When it came to producing our own one we picked different elements off them to inspire our own skull. For example we used the idea of the upside down cross from this image:

INSPIRATION FOR FRONT COVER:

Final CD Digipak

The Front Cover:

The First Two Back Panels of the CD Digipak:

The First Panel of the Inside Part of the CD Digipak:

The Second Panel Which Holds the CD Itself:

The Third Panel of the Inside of the CD Digipak:

Plan for our CD

This is a rough layout of what our cd digipak with look like. The top row is the exterior and the bottom is the interior. The whole cd will have a Mexcian and vintage feel. We will do this by using warm tones and orange colours.

progress on first draft

As you can see this is the same photo and layout as the poster I last posted, although I have tampered with the saturation, contrast and brightness. I have also edited the file in Photo Effects Studio to add the 'ancient' effect on to the image which therefore reflects the era of the The Coasters

first draft of magazine advert

For this album artwork I used Photoshop to put it together. I used a photograph that I had taken when I first came to the Sheepwalk, I felt that it was a good image to use because it includes some of the set used in the video but not any of the performers which works to keep it simple. I also used the website 'dafont.com' to find and download a number of appropriate fonts of which i felt went with the theme of 'Mexicali' and finally decided to use the two seen in the poster. I then added the colours to the text that fit  in with the colours of the photograph behind the text. I plan to draft some other ideas as well as work into this one.

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.