Inspiration for Digipak

Here i have included some images which have inspired the artwork for my digipak. Because our chosen music genre is rap, I decided to look at a lot of CDs which I own and online digipack's to get a better idea of what I want my digipack to look like.

At the very beginning of the project our first shoot which included children playing basketball already hinted some ideas about what I would possibly be doing for my digipack. In our shoot we intentionally included a long board covered with graffiti which was already in the youth club. 

Above are three different CD covers which I looked at and which gave me an idea for my cover. All these three share bold, big fonts as well as graffiti font on the second cover. To keep in with the chosen genre I decided to explore and show the hip hop culture and not do the standard thing which is to create a cover with the artist on it. I really like graffiti and portray it as a piece of art therefore I decided to explore this aspect of the hip hop culture and include it in my digipack.

When we went out to shoot for the end of our clip I created the graffiti which added a special effect to the video. The place where we filmed this scene had a lot of other professional works of other people we do not know. I took some photographs to show these (above). Seeing this graffiti really inspired me to explore more. I decided to experiment with light at night and used my camera and mover it really quickly to achieve a smudging effect. I did this because I also wanted to include the surroundings in which these children would have been brought up. Usually the perception of rappers is negative due to where they come from or what they have been through. I want to show this but the fact that these people release albums proves they're artists. 

This photo I have found online. I really liked it and it also gave me an idea for my digipack. I tought that if I was going to keep to the standard ways the CDs are released with the main artist on the cover, I tought I'd use this effect. This effect is widely used in rap videos and I thought it was an idea to work with and whilst working on my digipack I did explore this idea and here it is...