Digipak Draft

Front Cover

This is the draft for the front cover of my digipack, it features the three 'zombies' in a field. The image is inspired by a scene in the music video for the song 'Death'.

-Screenshot from 'Death'.

The album title and band name are written on the back of the central member's hoodie. This is written in pink to contrast the darkness of the image and to help suggest the psychedelic nature of the band's music. The image is dark to show the 'darkness' of their music.

I was unsure if I should include the chainsaw from the scene in the video, I eventually decided to because it reminded me of the classic zombie film series 'Evil Dead'. 

The colours and distortion on the right hand side are because the back cover has a psychedelic pattern on it and the back cover is going to bleed over onto the front cover.

This is the back cover of my digipack, I chose the psychedelic style colours and gradient as I think that it is very fitting with their music. I also put the 'wave' effect on the text to further increase the psychedelic style. The information for the record labels and copyright is written at the bottom and the barcode is beneath the tracklist.

The spine of my digipack features the gradient and colours from the back cover and uses the same font as the front and back covers. I included 'present' instead of just having the title and band name as I think it is quite unique and seems professional, it also seems like an old film and the Flatbush ZOMBiES often include intertextual references to film in their work. The 'present' also links to the advert which says the same thing.

This is the inside fold, the spine features the same text as the other one but is purple to match the image on the inside. The image is of an abandoned building I found and a broken barrier with graffiti on it. I increased the contrast to give the graffiti and shadows an interesting effect and then made the image black & white and added a pale purple filter. The colour purple is often linked to hip-hop especially recently as many famous rappers drink an illegal drink called 'Lean'.



I decided to change the spine and carry on the theme of the back cover bleeding over.

Complete view of 1st side of digipak





This is where the spine would be but on the inside, it is influenced by the cover of Kanye West's '808's and Heartbreak'. I decided to make a black & white version to convey the darkness of the group's music and one that is the same colour as the gradient on the outside of the digipack.

- Kanye West's '808's & Heartbreak'

This is one of the inside panels of my digipack, it represents the 'hood' and how people are trapped inside it, this is shown by the fence which even makes it look almost prison like, this photograph would go by the black and grey spine. I made the image black & white so it seemed darker and more entrapping, I then added a filter to make it look more professional.

 This is the inside (minus the central piece), the image on the left is supposed to contrast the image on the right as it shows freedom and the bright-lights of fame. the colours are also quite psychedelic which fits the group's style and the coloured dashes are on this side.

This image will be under the disk and the disk will be printed so that the buyer can move his disk to create either a cross or an inverted cross.

This is the disk to the album, it will fit in line with the lines on the paper behind it. It will be a matt black colour with the purple which will be shiny.





Complete inside view - I added some crosses to carry a theme through. The cross on the right represents the fact that when people are trapped in hard times they look to things like religion whereas the one on the left represents the fact that when people get big and famous they leave behind religion.