Theme For Digipak

I have started to think about the theme of my digipak as this is a crucial part of the artists brand and will dictate what goes on each panel. I want a theme because if one panel was in black and white and another in colour, it would mislead the audience and simply not look professional. Here are the stages I went through to deciding my theme using the picture below to work on...

I started to look at a glitch effect looking at youtube tutorials and I decided to put them into practice to see if it would fit the genre and if it actually looked any good. I started by putting the image in black and white as the introduction of this was a certainty. Then I started to distort the image as shown in the screenshots below. Here, I pressed the randomize button to find a distort that looked the best.

I then decided that the glitch effect was too 'out there' and I changed the theme to a fuzzy effect that put different coloured silhouettes of the image in the background. Even though the image below took a while to make and looks fairly good, the blurriness of the image is an issue because the artists face should be the focal point of the image. Consequently, I had to alter my idea again to accommodate this issue which I did below.

I then decided to use a 3D effect after coming across a video on YouTube. This image was created by copying the original black and white layer two more times and putting one in cyan and one in red. Then I moved one copied layer to the left and one to the right which created a nice effect and one that I will now use as my overall theme. This technique was simple to create and I now know how to apply this to any image. There are also possible advancements that I can apply to this technique to improve it further. First, I can introduce cyan and red coloured lines that almost imply a glitch effect but just not as substantial as before. Also, I can still cut up the layer into sections and slightly move each one to introduce the distort technique. This theme is one that I am happy with and it allows me to incorporate previous ideas into it which could look good.

Now that my theme is decided, I can now focus on capturing my two final images that should be done over the weekend and start to play with the theme and try to advance it further. This post and progression has helped me significantly because I now have a solid idea of how my digipak is going to start to be pieced together with the foundations of the theme.