Completion of official Digipak

First stage

The skills that were learnt from experience and guidance from YouTube videos helped to get the basic layout for the album cover. The images were blended effectively and shadowed well to suit the black background and the parental advisory is there as a warning to the explicit language on the songs which is very common on hip hop album cover. The pictures seem proportionate and to the right scale to give the sense that both artists are equal in this joint album.

Completed cover

 We felt that the abbreviation of Holy Grail is a statement to people that says that it is going to be a popular and recognisable title and people will recognise the abbreviation. This is a demonstration of power and fame which is very common in the hip hop genre. The font was kept simple but defined to make it looked chique and contemporary. The addition of the strip of the playing card symbols again references our video.

Record label

This was a feature that we thought would be very important to add to make the album look authentic and professional.

 The back of the album digipak took more time because of all the detail placed into it. The artists are featured at the back exposing their torso's which expresses their dress sense and gives the audience an idea of what their characters are like. It also makes them look quite powerful and dominant. List of the songs are featured and displayed in a creative way matching a symbol that is over the photo in the background. Other small details added to make it look even more authentic are the album producer's names, bar code and the compact disc logo. The spine features the artists names to make it clear who features in the album and the the full name of the album.

We were inspired to include 7 tracks from Micheal Jackson's album thriller as it is unique to have that amount of songs on our album and it is iconic due to the legend using the same amount on his album. 

We then moved on to working on the inside of the digipak. As we were making the inside of the digipak we had an idea to make the whole of it a play card back to maintain that poker card theme going through out but we felt that it didn't work with the album as it looked too messy. above is a photo of us using Photoshop to achieve a professionally designed digipak.

This is the finished inside of the digipack. The images from the front cover are featured again in the inside however they are facing towards each other in the side where the CD will be placed which will mean that when the CD is removed then that is what is revealed underneath. We also included the Fleur-De-Lis which is a symbol that has been used throughout the digipak. It is a very sophisticated and artistic symbol that has been around for many years which gives it a nostalgic value as well. It fitted very well on the inside of the digipak and with a little shading on the top of it, it looked very appealing. We researched many hip-hop digipaks which also didn't feature any texts on the inside but rather images of actors and other symbols, so we took this into account and decided to match the hip hop convention of not having texts on the inside of the digipak but rather miscellaneous images.