Research into digipack

After looking at other similar bands albums covers I am now going to look at Bloc party's other albums covers.
This way I can see what parts of the album covers are used again and again and which parts I should keep on my album cover to make a house style.
Bloc party album covers

When looking at Bloc party's albums I noticed that their title was the same on all albums. The titles also included a false stop after their band name. This is a great sense of house style. That I feel we should keep when doing our front cover. Buyers will recognise Bloc party's albums by the font of the title and the specific full stop after the bands name. We want our Album to be recognised so therefore the same font and full stop should be used on our album too, making the house style follow throughout. The font as shown will always be in white. And the song name underneath the bands name will be kept slightly smaller.
The album cover picture have been selected in an extremely clever way. The top left picture is named "Silent alarm" They have created a silent alarm by putting a picture on the front which has nothing but trees in the background on a winters night. There is nothing around except the trees making the surroundings silent. The picture and the title gives an ominous sense to it.

The second album with two people kissing, is called "Intimacy" there is nothing more intimate then two people kissing. Its simple yet effective and explains the song title easily.

The albums another weekend in the city, has a picture of bright lights on a big building in the city. They way Bloc party have explained their titles in simple yet effective way is exactly what we want to do.
When looking at the albums we have chosen to research from there are not any photographs of the band members of Bloc party so we will not be using a picture of the band or people pretending to be the band.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO NOW...

Now we need to find our font that we want to use, we know that we want the exact same as the other albums, we just need to find it now! We are going to use the website we used when creating our AS media work... http://www.dafont.com/
We came across the font "Abeat by Kai" which looked quite circular and similar to the font used therefore we downloaded it and thought we would have a look at it on a real photograph as a almost template.

Now that we feel we have our font sorted we need to see how it looks on a photograph. A lot of Bloc party's album covers were location shots, so we decided that first of all we will see what our font looks like on a location photo of ours seeing as we had taken a lot when filming.

Here me and Vicky edited our location picture and then Sophie added on the text. We feel that for a first attempt it looks pretty similar. We've kept the theme of locations and have kept the font style so that a house style is kept throughout all albums.

Here is how we made it...

Vicky put a little collage together of Bloc party's albums including ours..

Can you tell the difference?