Completed Digipack

I wanted to link the theme of the album to its title and I feel that 'The Awakening' has connotations of mystery and of the 'unknown'. The image I used for the front cover shows this, in my opinion, with the character out of focus and surrounded by darkness. I used a dark colour scheme for the album as I felt it would add to the mystic feel and compliment the album name and theme of the songs. It may be viewed that this is going against the usual style of this genre but I feel that doing something different from the norm can be effective and would appeal to the indie fans . I also think the style of the album still represents Mumford and their music well which is important. For the inside of digipack I used one image across the two panels as I felt that this would be viewed open like a book and that it was more effective than using two different pictures. I edited the photo used so that the colour showed some continuity and the colour scheme fitted in with the outside covers as this is something I noticed from analysing other digipacks. The font I used for the band type on the front cover is traditional and this represents the folk genre well as the instruments are acoustic and their clothing takes a vintage theme.

In this task I acquired an advanced understanding of Adobe Photoshop CS5, the program I used to design my digipack which was complex and initially very challenging to use. I also improved my editing skills using iPhoto which helped me manipulate photos to give the effect I desired and achieve the design I wanted.

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