Inside Covers First Draft

As I wanted the album cover to flow throughout, I thought that it was necessary for the background to be the same on both the front and back of the digipak. This was also a convention which I had noticed in other digipaks, for example Linkin Park- Meteora, however although the images were not the same the colour scheme and the semantic field of the images were constant. Therefore, I was certain that I would make use of the same image of the sky for the background. Furthermore, I wanted to reinforce the idea of the band name 'The Rockweilers' and the rebellious theme. My first draft is shown below...

As a first draft, I did not feel satisfied with the outcome, I felt that the use of colour images such as the brick wall and the rottweilers were too drastic compared to the black and white images on the front. Furthermore, I was not pleased with the font of the graffiti as although it appeared rebellious, I did not think it had such an urban impression. As a result, I decided to, once again analyse the Linkin Park- Meteora digipak for inspiration, this lead me to make use of graffiti as a main feature of the inside cover. Since I was not convinced by my first draft, I decided to take a more structured approach of designing and created a plan, which is shown below.

Using the basic programme 'Paint' I created a plan which shows the most important features of the cover. Like the first draft I made use of the same background of the sunset sky, however this time I used a range of black and white photos, edited on 'Fireworks' to set the urban scene. This is shown by the jagged lines behind the graffiti. Finally, the creation of the graffiti reading 'The Rockweilers' was created using the free website http://www.graffiticreator.net/, this website allowed me to create any word in a graffiti font, and design the colours and prints used.