Blog 11: Final Digipak Production

This will be my final digipak design.

I did not spend too much time on photography. I kind of came back and wrote this after we finished the shooting. Therefore, I only took three pictures that we left behind in the warehouse: one of an axe lying on the ground and one with a blood print on the wall. These items are supposed to be iconic in our MV.

And there you go, your quintessence of life, the negative no.25 of our production.

I thought about putting Louis inside our production, but I feel like our key selling point of this MV is not about an individual artist but our ideology. People aren't gonna remember Louis's face, but they'll remember our bizarre style. So, that's why I did not include a portrait of the artist.

⬇️ Here are some of the backup photos we took. But all of them seem a bit hard to fit in a square-like design in a digipak. But they are pretty interesting.

The photo shoot happens on the same day as the filming thanks to my camera being able to switch between video mode and photo mode quickly. We used the same 48W facial panel for lighting and we got some small object for louis to hold such as the bible, umbrella, and the classic condom.

Updates: I updated the back of the cover with more Louis's Portrait and removed the cartoonish blood on the top of the cover. By doing so the digipak looks more serious and uniformed to the branding and the genre we had. The pictures are edited by the canvas picture editor, which I found colour paned monochrome colour very satisfactory.

However this does get my colour pallet a bit messy, but I have the artist been shown, which is always going to be good thing to do. This does also make my branding kinda vibrant which I was not going for at the start cuz I want the things to be distorted and thrilling. However, I do think that this would work as realistically there really isn't too much violence going on in the MV.