Sketches of front cover

Sketches of front cover

After going through a range of photos to choose for my Digipak, the slide above here details any developments upon previous ideas mentioned during the post as well as new sketches and improvements upon the design, particularly more in terms of the front cover. Initially I drew a sketch/plan as to how I would develop the image below into more of a Digipak cover.

However, I also explored other potential compositional styles inspired by a range of sources in order to feature the Robots presence somewhere on the Digipak cover to almost adapt the Robot character as Tropiika's persona in terms of artist promotion.

One idea I had was to replace the barbie doll featured in the image with a Lego construct version of the Robot head thus promoting my artists image as well as keeping with the playful and weird theme of the video and hopefully the digipak.

Other ideas started to stem from the idea of a computer based theme whether adapting the look of glitch art which was also featured in my music video to convey themes of a computer virus running rampant or perhaps basing my imagery on old computer manuals to convey not only a computer theme which should do well in communicating the electronic genre but also will help in conveying a retro look to the digipak which would fit in well with the  music,video's use of sampled stock footage of the 80's/90's. When conceiving this idea I was mainly inspired by the artworks featured on Com Truise's Komputer cast compilation albums which feature imagery of old computer models such as the Commodore PET to convey a retro futuristic look to the artist as well as communicating his retro like sounds.

Komputer cast inspiration

Old computer manuals - Inspiration for some of the designs

Other ideas came from more retro technology themes to further explore representing the music video's use of old sampled footage as well as conveying a tech theme found in electronic based music. These ideas included stylising the front cover of the Digipak as an old video game title or perhaps feature a style similar to the pixelated look of BBC's Ceefax or teletext which firstly allows for a pixel based look keeping with the computer theme as well as adopting the look of Ceefax to represent the artists British origin as well as conveying a sense of Britishness among the digipak.

Mock ups of how I could possibly adapt these visual styles of video game title screens and Ceefax/teletext for the cover of my digipak

Finally, one last element from my music video that I thought would be appropriate to explore for the front of my digipak would be utilising the Frank Sinatra theme and visual motif seen throughout and possibly base the front of my Digipak on the design of one of his albums in order to convey the humouress side to the music and music video attached to the digipak.

A mock of how I could possibly parody Frank Sinatra- If I were to develop this idea further I could add a glitch overlay effect making it look more like the robot is glitching and taking over album artwork as well.

In addition to developing ideas for the front cover to my Digipak, I briefly touched upon an idea for the booklet or insert that would be featured in my Digipak. Because my chosen track is electronic based and features very little lyrics one idea I had was to feature extra artwork perhaps consisting of the images taken when filming however overlayed with a typography effect similar to the image below, with the two lyrical parts of the song "like a fever burnin" and "let the love with feel" written all over, to firstly represent the viruses take over and also convey a computer binary code/Anscii art look to it further exploring the music video and possibly Digipak's computer theme. However I also propose exploring whether my artist has other tracks he would like to attach to this album as this may alter the outlook of the interior of my insert.

Moreover, for the exterior one idea I noted on the slide above was to use also use an old computer manual which would in turn allow communicate a software look to the Digipak i.e stylising it like purchasing computer software and thus convey my idea of the title Burnin fever referring to a computer virus. However If I were to use this idea for the insert exterior, I feel that it would best leave it just for the insert instead of the front as too much of this graphical style would clash and render the software look meaningless. I.e. Having a look of a computer manual with another computer manual within it wouldn't make sense.