Digipak Research

Research based on our chosen band: Bloc Party

Voke and I are going to research into Digipak's and the art work behind them. Firstly, we are going to look at the artwork within our chosen genre and compare them, we will also look at our Bloc party's past digipaks and find out whether there have a coherence house style because then we will carry that on.

Focusing on font

Firstly, we thought it was a good idea to look at Bloc party's album artwork, as you can see they all have the same font on their albums. It is a simple yet bold title "Bloc Party." with the use of the full stop. Therefore we think it is essential to use this font the whole way through.

The font as shown is always in white, with the song name underneath in a smaller size.

Looking at their artwork

When discussing the artwork, I will go in order starting from the top left. The first album is a photograph at night with the trees in the background, it looks as if it is in winter due to the snow-like atmosphere, I believe this works because the song name is "silent alarm" and the ominous sense is created from the artwork.

The second album is an extreme close up of two people kissing, we are unaware of the gender between these two people however works greatly due to the song name as "intimacy". As we can see, so far there are no photographs of the band members or people therefore, already we are unlikely to take a photograph of just our male protagonist.

The last album "A weekend away in the city" is a personal favorite of mine, I absolutely love the photograph and the lighting works very well! This is something that has inspired us when we took the photographs to go on our digipak.

Our main aim is to find a font that looked exactly like the one Bloc Party have used. The best website for this was www.dafont.com the site that we used greatly in our AS media portfolio.

We came across the font "Abeat by Kai" which looked quite circular and similar to the font used therefore we downloaded it and thought we would have a look at it on a real photograph as a almost template.

Next..

We looked at all the photographs we took in filming and came across one we all absolutely loved after we edited it in photoshop.

After moving a few things around in photoshop- adjusting the size, brightness and contrast this is our first outcome:

This is a grab shot from photoshop:

This is an example we put together, just a mock task to see how we could use the images we had taken whilst filming to see how they correlated when placed onto the album cover.