Digipak Research

Looking at the album 'Stadium Arcadium' I feel the use of imagery is strong and has a decent display of colour, design and overall layout. The design of the 'Stadium Arcadium' album gives the feel of a large, atmospheric space. The aspect of the smoke/planets creates a description of the cosmos and of the idea of a larger atmosphere than the music itself. This artwork loosely ties into star image with images of the band members on the reverse of the album, however this use of star image is incredibly subtle due to the fact they aren't a feature focus of the digipak. The way they have been presented here is how I beleive I will be presenting my star. Creating artwork that either conceals the star or adds some anonymity to their persona, is what would suit the music and the aspects of the personality I want to reflect upon them.

                                         

Using the influence of this digipak, I would like to create an atmospheric look to my images and potentially use filters, overlays and textures to add to this look. The panels will remain simple, referencing the video in subtle forms. I feel the use of graphics in this example is too bold for my artist, whereas I would rather mine be more subtle.

A good example of subtle looking graphics can be seen in the artwork for 'Warpaint'. The graphic text for Warpaint has been used in a subtle way, but also pays homage to the design of albums by the record label 'Blue Note Records' who often use blocks of colour to separate the graphics from the images.

Due to my genre of music being loosely based on Indie music I feel it is an important aspect of my research to include examples of typical indie styles of photography, for example the double exposure image seen in Warpaint's album cover. The use of such an effect I feel could potentially be useful for my song, however I will need to see how it relates to my video and whether or not it is appropriate.

Referencing musical history such as 'Blue Note Records' is important to my project as I will be looking at creating artwork that incorporates history and other elements of artwork, such as painting and drawing as these are also important aspects to the star image I am creating.