Digipak evaluation

Images used

For the album front cover I took a photo of a building with a tree in front of it, then I used an editing software Gimp, to make the picture black and white, to give the connotation of metal music, and its themes like darkness and horror, and added crucifixes in the background which is a Black Sabbath reference, this is another metal band, which also implies the new band have similar sounds. This informs the audience of potential influences on the bands music before even listening to it, as I have tried to include more traditional metal genre related imagery.

Original photo of album cover before editing.

The back cover of the album is a photo of one of the member of the band playing guitar, with the song included on the album beside him, I told the guitarist to face away from the camera when I took the photo, as I felt it would add more mystery to the band, which would get the audience more interested, as you would want to find out who BULLITT are. The back of the album also includes a ‘parental advisory’ warning, because of the dark content involved in the music and music promo, which something common with metal albums, and I feel it almost attracts people to listen to the album if they know it contains dark imagery. The CD disk sticker is quite basic, ands fits in well with the rest of the album.

FontsThe font used throughout the whole digipak, is ‘stencil’, and is the most

important one out of all them, because it is the band BULLITT’s logo, and I felt that it must be used on everything to get the look of their name more identifiable and well known. The font itself suggests a kind military feel to it, like the band is an army, and If you buy the album you can be part of the ‘army’. On the back cover I have used a gothic style font which I thought fitted in well with the black background, as it looks like the song titles have been carved into the wall, this also adds to the dark conventions that I was trying to create.

Colour schemeFor my digipak, I noticed that the colour black has strict

connotations with the metal music genre, which is why my digipak is very black dominant, this also leads to connotations of metal music as well such as death and misery. I used red for the band’s logo because I thought it stood out heavily on the black backgrounds, and is quite eye catching, the connotations with red are blood, danger, and even romance, which are just some of the signifiers in metal music. Even though I edited the photo into a black and white negative style, it also made the tree look like it is covered in snow, which I felt it ruined the metaphor of the title of the album ‘Season in Hell’ unintentionally, but on the other hand I thought it looked fitting for an metal album cover.