Ancillary Products - Digipak 1

The Digipak is one of the two sub products that we have to produce for the ancillary tasks. The digipak is the small four page booklet that is found inside a CD case. The dimensions are 5.47" x 4.94". Jack and Sam are having a bigger role in the production of the ancillary tasks since I focused a lot more on the filming and editing. 

The Digipak will have four individual pages, the front and back covers as well as the two inside pages. We quickly agreed to have three images, one on each cover and a larger picture to fill the two inside pages.To start the first page we took an image of the actor sat on a hill overlooking swanage. We chose this because of how we all thought it was our best 'vista' shot. Sam used Adobe Photoshop to edit the images that we used.First he cropped the image slightly so that the actor is still visible before finding an image of the nights sky that was labelled for reuse.

 He put the actor and night sky on separate layers so that they can be edited independently. This made a new background for the image however it didn't look right. It was very clear that the actor was edited in and looked very out of place. We needed an interesting and creative way to blend the two images together.The reasoning for using the night sky is to emphasis on how vast the world is compared to the actor showing his insignificance compared to the world. This links in with the idea behind the music video which shows the lonely struggles the boy goes through.

He used the 'Fresco' filter effect. The Fresco effect makes the layer with the actor stand out quite a bit, showing him to be almost 'unreal' to give the effect of he doesn't feel like he's part of the world. However, even after doing this the background still did not go well with the foreground and as a result, I used the 'crystallize' effect for the background with the stars giving it a shattered and uncertain appearance. his shows how unclear the world is to the boy and the way the sky looks broken shows how the boy feels broken himself. Below is what we decided on being the image that we will use for the first page of the digipak.