My Final Digipak Cover

This is my final digipak cover made on Serif Photo Plus. The image is a photo taken of the actor who played the main character in the music video. He looks particularly vulnerable in the corner which depicts his character's role in the video. I've made it look like he is in the darkness but with a spotlight over him like the interrogation room setting. The Killers logo has been used in the top left corner. It looks 3D and the white stands out against the darkened, blue shadow background, its lowered opacity makes it look ghostly which links to the character of Jenny in the music video. 'The trilogy' has been portrayed in a similar way but using the 'Times New Yorker' font, downloaded off http://www.dafont.com/. I decided to use a dark colour scheme to emphasise the theme of the dark storyline. The blue used prominently on the front is a blue texture overlayed several times to try and give the look of CCTV this has then been reinforced by the timecode in the bottom left corner which is a major part of the music video. It may make prospective buyers purchase the product or watch the music video because they want to know more about the mysterious CCTV theme. The back has the track listing, website, barcode, record label logo and some made up copyright information. This makes it look realistic as these are typical conventions of all digpaks. The centre fold of the digipak just has the the band name and album name over an almost transparent cover of the background.

The inside of the digipak is very similar to the one we originally planned. We used the same text as planned, which I then blurred to give it the ghostly feel this inner panel has. The images we used had to be taken by us so I took a photograph of the brick wall outside my house and rather than the ghostly image of 'Jenny' as planned we used a screenshot of our main male character from the video. His image being ghostly (by a lower opacity) illustrates his demise through the story. We then came up with the idea of putting the text in a black colour so it is almost transparent over the image. This is made to look like the interrogation write up over his image. The text is written in a type writer font to emphasise this. This inner sleeve is very dark with the only light source coming from the beam of light effect behind the left hand text, this is to continue the dark, sombre mood of the products.