Digipak Production and Final Product

After researching into existing digipaks for artists such as Lana Del Rey I began to plan the production of my own. I decided to have a four panel digipak as I thought this would be equally as effective as a six panel example but will enable me to keep up to date with my music video production schedule. All the photos included in the digipak were taken by either myself or my actor in order to avoid copyright infringement, which is a potential risk if I were to source images online.

The final photos I planned to use are shown below:

After I had chosen these pictures, I uploaded them onto a free website tool called 'Canva.com.' I had already created the album cover prior to this using the same tool and so decided to use the same layout for the other panels to make the overall digipak consistent. The website allows you to upload photos into pre-designed layouts and then resize photos, add filters, and insert your own text. I chose to add a filter muting the colours to each image and then for my inside covers added lyrics in a subtle white font from the song Pretty Hurts. Similarly, I used the text tool to add the song listing to my back panel. A screenshot from the process is shown below.

After I had created all the panels for my digipak, I downloaded a four-panel digipak template online and opened it into Adobe Photoshop. The template allowed me to ensure that the dimensions of my digipak, replicated the true measurements of real products. This makes the final product more authentic. In photoshop, I also inserted featured from real album digipaks such as a barcode and artist acknowledgements to the back panel.The template is shown below.

My Final Digipak design: