First Draft Disc Art

Here is the first draft of the disc for my digipak, from using existing research I used images I have taken previously when filming and edited them to black and white and then proceeded to crop out the bottom of the image.

To firstly create my draft disc art, I used a existing template of a CD disc to get the exact sizing and measurements of the disc so that I would be able to easily work out how to place my images onto the disc. After this, I then chose my image that I wanted to use as the CD disc background. (Used from a shot taken from the music video)

After getting the image, I turned the image black and white using Photoshop. I then used the Magic Wand tool and selected the parts of the CD disc I no longer wanted. I then discarded these parts of the disc and placed my image underneath the CD disc layer. I then lined up which part of the image I wanted ensuring I only placed the tree part rather then the bottom of the shot into the shot.




After aligning the image underneath the CD disc template I merged the layers down so that it would be easier to crop the disc in the image.











I then cropped the imaged so that only the template and image was able to be seen. By doing this I was able to judge whether or not I liked the look of the design. From doing this, I discovered that I quite liked the design because it was quite simplistic but also reminded me of existing CD disc arts that I already seen. Making it more like a real media product.

Following cropping the image, I went on Dafont.com looking for fonts that suited the 'indie folk' style genre. From looking through the 'Top 100' I found the font 'Moon Flower' which looked quite quirky and would fit the style of font I wanted on my disc art. Because I haven't already chosen the name of my artist, I searched artist into the text generator so that I was able to see what the fonts would look like.

After screen shotting the text font, I pasted it onto  a new layer and cropped the image to fit onto the disc cover. At first I was going to delete the white background but soon realised because the font colour was black it didn't really stand out from the darkened black image. Once discovering this, I left the white background on which i thought contrasted well with the striking black image.