Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Good Charlotte Digipack rough


This is a draft for my digipak. I initially had an idea to base the artworks on the influence of drugs, and punk. The drawn design I had was a pill bottle, next to a cigarette partially lit, with "Good Charlotte" as the brand. "Anxiety"was going to be part-scribbled onto the label of the pill bottle, and the "GC" logo was going to be slanted approximately 45 degrees anticlockwise.
The rough here shows a slanted pill bottle as the artwork. I used pink for the bottle as this is a colour I really like to add, but this also makes the bottle look like a screenprint, in a punky style.
Next, the digipak would be opened once, to see the definition of anxiety on the left. This was inspired by Guns n Roses' music video for "Estranged" where there is a definition of "Estranged" before the video starts. On the right, there is the actual added text album artwork, using a scribbled effect "Anxiety" in pink to merge with the idea of the bottle. This font was "Jenna Sue" downloaded from Dafont. I then used the original idea of the "GC" approximately 45 degrees anticlockwise, this time in black to make the "GC" stand out from the pink and white. The font I used for this was a font I suspected as: Old English Text. I then downloaded one called "Old English".
Next, the digipak would be fully opened, revealing the cd, to show an ash tray behind the disk, fitting with the drugs idea. I did the ash tray black because it's supposed to be a background picture for the disk. I also did the ash tray for the circle shape of the disk.
To the right, there would be what seems to be another album design. This is cleverly just showing the album and artist, so you wouldn't forget. Also, this is the band picture, in black again to emphasise the band rather than the titles. The last piece of text shows who the band is. The band members are the people in the music video.
On the track listing, there is again the same shade of pink, being two cigarettes, linking to drugs and the ashtray. I then used "Print Clearly" font for the listing. All the tracks except for track 11 "Game Over" are genuine Good Charlotte songs, picked for the drugs and "I hate my life" idea. I used a barcode from the Internet, and cheekily added in the bottom left "Produced at Home Studios Film and Music Productions" as this relates to my company idea "Homestudios10".

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