Digi Pack Plan

Whilst editing our video we also began the process of designing our digipack for our ancillary tasks in order to use our time effciently. After researching other Killer's designs for their products we began to barin storm ideas for our own design. We felt we had to vary some of the conventions in order to portray our story and idea of shadowplay and unlike most Killer's album covers we used a prominant image, rather than just a low key background they tend to use. This made our work more unique and striking. We did however comply with the font conventions as it kept in with the uniform style. Here our the drafts and initial barinstorm ideas:

We really liked the effect of an overlay as it successfully conveyed the idea of the boy's entrapment in his nightmare, represented by the clown. We also wanted to use our uniform colours of black, white and yellow which represent the shadows and lack of light in his life/nightmare, whilst the yellow is a striking colour for details such as text that we want to stand out.

On set we began taking photos on Aisha's camera for our magazine and digipack. Here is a link to all the original photos we took as ideas for our final ancillary products.

With a good idea of the look we wanted to achieve we began manipulating images in Photoshop:

We took this image using a torch underneath the camera, facing up towards Harry’s face. This provided bright lighting and a slighting menacing look we wanted to achieve. We then desaturated the image and increased the saturation of the image. We also erased the background with a faded brush, so that the edges were not too harsh. We then used the circular shape tool to draw a circle around the image, and inverted the image so that we could erase the outer shape. This was the image use for the CD.

This image was used to overlay over Harry for both the cd cover and magazine poster. Editing the puppet posed some difficulties due to the puppets hair, and the original lighting. To produce the image on the left, we had to increase both the contrast and brightness of the image. We also added a faint lighting effect (spotlight) in the bottom left corner of the image. We also erased the background of the image with a faded rubber, to ensure the edges were not too hard. We then placed the image on a black background.

This image above, was eventually used for the back cover of our digipack as we decided a less overpowering image would be the most effective and this was also a convetion we found when doing our research. The image was taken in the woods, where some of the footage was filmed. To create the image to the right, we had to reduce the fill and opacity of the original and place it on top a black background. We also imputted an extremely faint image of Harry in the bottom right corner. We achieved this effect by manipulating the opacity and fill are both to around 20%, so it is extremely faint. We decided to incorporate this because it is unnoticeable, similarly to how the puppet was unnoticeable to Harry.