Front cover planning:

I have stumbled upon an album cover, by Franz Ferdinand; a band which are iconic of the indie rock genre. From the above album cover, I have taken inspiration, as I aim to achieve a replication of sorts, just like The Clash's London Calling album which pays homage to Elvis Presley's debut. This idea will fit as the album name for my band is going to be 'Call Out', which is a song taken from the album in real life. I will also be taking note at the lack of an album name on the front cover, which is unconventional, perhaps in this case on purpose. Furthermore, the institution is displayed clearly at the bottom right of the cover - again this is unconventional as the institutions are usually displayed on the back and/or in the booklet (if any). The band also don't appear on the front cover, which isn't conventional of a mainstream front cover (the band aren't completely mainstream as they are categorised in the indie genre, an unpopular genre among the masses). The same goes for mine; it won't feature an image of the artist on the front cover, differentiating my media product from mainstream products. Unlike the above cover, which doesn't feature the album name, mine will. My original plan was to not put the album title on the cover, to make it even more unconventional, but in order to fill the 'speech bubble' coming from my model, I will be needing the album title to fill the bottom line, as "Renegades" simply won't fill up the two lines for obvious reasons.

The above picture is an example of Russian Constructivism. This particular style influenced Franz Ferdinand's front cover, as it will with my overall style. I will go in to more detail later about Russian Constructivism, as I will be researching it more, as it will be a lage part of my ancillary texts.

The above image is the aforementioned panel of the digipak album 'The Best In Town' in which the band say their thanks, in a humorous way, behind the CD and the plastic covering. This is something I will be aiming to achieve on my digipak.

Taken from the same digipak album, the above image is one of the inside panels, situated next to the panel holding the CD in place. I will be influenced by this in the sense that it will have hand-written qualities, similar to my back cover, and will have lyrics taken from the songs on the album (to make up for the lack of lyrics in a booklet, which my digipak won't have (although some do in a slipcase)).

This changing of my ideas of my digipak has lead me to re-do my designs. I will be scanning in the images and uploading them on here when we come back from the holidays.

On a different note, I have decided that I will be using the idea of doing the lyric boards, in my music video, backwards, and so when they are played in reverse, they will be flying toward the lead singer, who is holding the boards, and will be in the correct order also. Furthermore, my CD design will be of a simple Vinyl record, shown below.

Conventionally, the album name and artist name are written on the CD. Because my CD will be in the style of a Vinyl record, I will place some stickers on it, hand-written (and scanned on to the computer to be edited on) which will state the aforementioned vital information, allowing me to abide by the conventions in a 'scruffy' way, giving my CD homemade qualities, as though the disc is like a 'mixtape' were people wrote the name of the album/artist on the tape, usually messily, on a sticker; attaching it to the tape, or in this case CD.