This is the front cover for the digipak that we designed. We decided to go for the same design as our poster as we felt that it represented the song, video and digipak really effectively. From the research that undertook about digipaks we realised that front covers were either quite simple with little detail, or very congested with lots of things going on. We believed that the more simple design works much better for what we wanted.
The design of the front cover corresponds with the storyline of our video. In the poster the main character who is dressed in shorts and a t-shirt is ready for a sunny day, however the weather has other ideas and puts a rain cloud just over him on a otherwise blue sky. Even though he has had his day rained on a smile remains on his face, which relates to the lyrics of the song and the incidents that occur in our music video. We chose that style of font because we liked its relaxed style and feels it fits nicely with the theme of the digipak.
We used mise-en-scene to try and create the illusion that the character may be quite an unluckly, unco-ordinated person. We managed this by his clothes, the way his garish green shorts do not match his uneven orange socks. We think that this has been achieved but maybe with abit more thought could of been better.
We believe that our front cover is good looking and very effective. If we had to do it again then the only thing that might change would be to try and create a bigger emphasis on the clothes he is wearing, maybe having him wear odd socks, more colourful clothing and a pair of sunglasses.
