Image Manipulation.

For my final design, I have decided to pursue the 'mime' idea, as it will correspond with the music video that we intend to produce in January. In order to make my digipak look entropic and 'indie', I intend to manipulate these images further in order make it interesting and aesthetically pleasing for my target audience. It is crucial that I vary the way in which the images are displayed as facial close-up shots are very common with mainstream album art, which is an image which I do not want to portray. Here are some ideas I came up with:

Polaroid Pictures

Creating a polaroid frame would build on the 'old fashioned' look that we wish to establish in our music video, therefore incorperating similar ideas into my digipak/magazine advert would correspond and build on audience appeal. It would also add more variation to the design, whilst keeping the basic pictures similar to one another, which is common and successful with digipak designs.

Passport Photos

I feel using a 'passport photo' layout on one of the panels for my digipak would work effectively, as likewise to the polaroids, it would add variation and make a more diverse and interesting digipak. I feel this would be particularly effective as I have several close-up facial shots of my 'mime' model pulling different facial expressions. The effect of these in a 'passport photo layout' would be entropic, as it unexpected to see a mime in passport photos, therefore it would build on the 'indie' genre by being different.

Here is a basic idea of what this would look like. I desaturated the layer slightly in order to make it look more 'old fashioned' and dimmed the brightness. I think this would work successfully for one of the panels of my digipak.

Another idea was to have a long strip of images, and have them repeated several times to create a block of pictures. I feel this would be a good idea for the back of my digipak, as this block of pictures could fill half of the digipak and the other half would be filled by track listing, bar codes, small print, etc. This is a basic idea of what this would look like: