Digipak - Extra Panel New

For the Extra Panel I used a image of our artist 'Kirstie Mayweather' because like previously stated this album is all about her and so I wanted more panels of her in different outfits rather than having the same outfit throughout the digipak. As explained before, the reason for this is because in the inside panels it can show the artist in a different way such as in the panel she is represented as classy and smart. Also, because we wanted to represent our artist as 'classy' and 'sophisticated' I assumed this photo of her would be good to use because in this photo our artist is all dressed up and giving her audience a pose. But in this image there is a red chair where our artist is sitting on and giving a pose at the same time. The red chair is key because throughout the digipak the colours black and red have been used many times such as in the front and back cover, on the CD and on the spine. So putting the red chair in the image, helps link all the images together by keeping the same colours that have used before and by putting them in other parts of the digipak on different panels to keep that consistency of colours used. Also, she is wearing the same black dress from the left panel and I did this because it's good to show different outfits from the front and back cover but again it is also good to keep some of the mise en scene which in this case is her costume/outfit the same in some parts throughout the digipak.

Extra Panel Draft 1:

Like the left panel, the first draft is the actual photo taken and I had to decide how I was going to place her on a square sized panel by either using the 'Crop' tool or by re-sizing it for it to fit the panel because of the fact the image is a portrait orientated image.

Extra Panel Draft 2:

For the second draft, just like for the left panel I used the 'Crop' tool by taking away the bottom part of the photo. I then placed the photo on the left side of the panel because of the her positioning/pose in the photo and the way she's looking more towards the right, made it easier for me to decide to frame her on the left side. Placing her on the left side looked better than placing her on the right side due to her body position.

Extra Panel Draft 3:

In the third draft, I changed the way I placed the photo of the artist because I didn't fill the whole Panel and I tried to extend the background but because of the red chair and our artists arm it was very difficult to extend, therefore, I had to re-size the photo by making it bigger in order to fill the frame. What I also did was position her more towards the left as I discovered before, it looks better on that side and because of the way the digipak will open as this is the left panel it would fit it in well with the rest of the digipak. I added the blur effect on the right side of the panel because I needed to add the signature of 'Kirstie Mayweather' and to see it clearly, I had to put the blur effect on. I placed the signature on the top right side of the image.

Extra Panel Final (Draft 4):

For the final draft I made the background from white to black because when I entered the signature of our artist the font was white and so was the background which meant you couldn't see the whole signature. So I changed the background colour which was better than changing the font to black because the background now goes which the rest of the digipak but also with the black dress used in the image. Having a white colour font for the signature on a background goes well together and I wanted to use more white in this digipak so this is why the colour was white.