Digipak Development

I have taken the digipak template and prepared it for editing in Photoshop.

First I opened the template .psd file in Photoshop and then created grid guidelines with the ruler tool along all of its edges to outline the front left, front right, inside left and inside right of my digipak.

Using these guides I then created rectangles to fill them with the rectangle tool and coloured them different colours so I could distinguish easily between them. I then masked out a side piece of the inside left quadrant to form the opening of the tube pocket as seen on the template.

I then created a custom shape using the magic wand and marquee tools to define the shape of the CD tray, filled this in white on a new layer and lowered the opacity to simulate the clear plastic.

I then created a CD sized circle tool shape according to the template and used a layer mask to make an inner portion of the disk 50% transparent, just like a real CD.

I can now change the colour or style properties of any of these shapes freely as well as add text and images. I will interview my peers next to gauge preference on colour, font and images.

Digipak Template

I will be using an industry standard digipak template:

to make sure my digipak, if produced for real, would be the correct size. It is a 4 panel pack with a tube pocket on the inside left which would be to house a folded poster or perhaps a booklet of behind-the-scenes photos and lyrics.

Music Video Questionnaire

An audience feedback questionnaire about things such as types of edit and filming locations for my music video can be found here.

Todorov's Narrative Theory

I have decided that my video will not follow Todorov's theory as it will be anachronic which is more common for a music video.

Goffman's Character Theory

My music video will only include one main protagonist who will drive the plot and be the subject of the action and several bit players (city kids) who will contrast the protagonist and have no back story.

Propp's Character Theory

Advert Analysis: Blackstar - David Bowie

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