Preliminary Task Digipack Front Covers

For the front cover we decided we wanted to really enforce some of the conventions we had found during our research into Thrash Metal Digipacks. We wanted to include a text or font style that was distinctive as well as easily recognisable, we also wanted to give our cover a more destructive and deathly feel. We decided to place an image of a skull on the front cover as we felt it was perfect for the type or imagery we wanted to portray. We blurred our image to add a sense of mystery and fear. The reason behind giving our skull a military look by giving him a helmet was to both compliment our chosen artist name but also to give the front cover a sense of destruction and death something the military is linked to through war and it's consequences. Finally we also decided to give the eyes a sense of hidden identity. In war or battle you want to give the impression of great strength and dominance and we felt that a blood red would do this effectively. We also added some blood red to some of the text also.

We decided on a black background rather than a white as we felt It gave the album cover more of a dark or destructive feel. We also felt that having the title of the album worked better underneath the skull and the the artist name was better situated within the helmet. Not only this but we felt that the grey, white and black colour scheme wouldn't be as effective and was simply to dull to have as our album cover. Finally we also felt that the blur effect worked better than a blood stained hand as it  was more effective In portraying the image for the cover that we wanted. Here are our two alternative deigns: