Digipak Progression

Here is a photo bucket of all our drafts of the digipak. As the digipak has progressed so did my skills using Adobe Photoshop. Below is the CD progression. Our first draft we received feedback which said that that it looked childish. So we changed it to the middle picture. We then showed this new design to the class and it got a lot of positive feedback. People really liked the design but they thought it was a bit plain and did not match James Couleur's theme. 

This is the progression from our first draft to our final draft for our digipak front cover. I think this is a vast improvement from our original design. Our feedback for the first front cover was not as good as we hoped. People really didn't like it and again said it looked childish. The second design was liked a lot more and people thought it represented James Couleur better.

This is the inside cover for our digipak. This slide was generally liked across our research but people did think that it was a bit plain. We decided to change the colours of the guitars to make the cover match to James Couleur's theme.

This was the only slide from our digipak that we have kept the same from the first draft. The only change that was made was its location, this is now the under the disc.

James Couleur's Mistaken Characters Digipak

Here is the final version of James Couleur's digipak. We have made some changes from our first draft and now we have listened to feedback and believe that it is a lot better from what we started with.

Digi Pack Third Draft

Digi Pack Peer Feedback

We sent out a survey monkey questionnaire to find out what people liked about our digi pack and what people thought that we could improve. We had many mixed results towards our digi pack. Below are a few responses that we had from the class.

1. It's quite nice and the text goes with the genre however, I feel a bit trippy looking at it, there's colour then there's one random part of the digi pack which is black and white.

2. This is the least professional of all the digi packs. I think there is no clear theme and all of the slides feel random.

3. Good variety of different pictures, however the front cover could include bright colours so it would fit in with the rest of the digi pack.

4. Love the entire top row of this, the composition, imagery and colour scheme are fab, but not sure how the last two panels fit in? The CD is pretty cool but why the long white background? The guitars look like they've been found on Google, maybe go up to music and get your own pictures of instruments.

5. I'm really sorry but I dislike the colours and the font. Looks a little 'childish' however my opinion might change when I see the video and have a better understanding of the singer. Would like to have seen the artists face clearer, but then I guess this makes its quite secretive. However I do really like the effort done into the editing.

6. This is a good attempt but it needs work. There is a lot of colour which means it captures the eye but the images are bad quality and don't look very professional. Higher quality images and some more professional shots would improve the final product.

7. Looks like it was done quickly/not quite finished. Some is colourful and some is black and white, doesn't keep continuity.

8. Nice idea to do lots of different colours, the font is appropriate and works well. Improvements: it looks really unprofessional and quite childish, make it so it works with an older audience a bit more.

9. The James Couleur digi pack is very plain. It doesn't look very professional because of all the colours that are used are a bit overloaded. If the layout was all based on one or two different colours it could look more professional. The fonts that are used work well with the images that have been taken. The images all look professional.

10. James Couleuer.s digi pack is sticking with the theme "couleur" rench for colour because there is a lot of colour. I think that the cd looks good, but the colours everywhere make it look really childish and unprofessional. I think maybe you should just have each page a different colour rather than having so many different colours on every page.

We have taken all of this feedback on board and have made some changes to our digi pack. The main points that we need to look at are making it less childish and more professional and also use higher quality images to make it digi pack look more professional and more of a realistic look. Below is the new digi pack that we have made based upon the feedback that we have received.

Digi Pack First Full Draft

Our first draft for our digipak is now finished. You can see it above. James Braddy worked on this as he had experience with Adobe Photoshop and me and James Clifford drew out the original plan and came up with a few ideas.

First Draft for Back of the Digi Pack

Here is our first idea for our digipak. We thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of James facing a wall with the track list on his back.