To co-ordinate with the drawing used for the green screen background (which we plan on also using for the magazine poster), we created a lined paper layer for the lyrics page. The font used for the lyrics looks like handwriting, and therefore creating an image reminiscent to school work, giving our digipak a fun and light-hearted theme. Using photo shop, a textured, grain layer was put behind the blue lines, so aesthetically, it was more accurate to paper.
However, we felt that the image (above) looked too "primary", and "simple". So we lessened the contrast on the grain background, and thickened the blue lines. The actual lyrics were placed inside the lines, as opposed to just over it like before, and the font was changed. Photo shop had a limited amount of handwriting font styles, so we entered "marker", "hand writing" and "doodle" into
Da Fonts search bar. This way, we were able to test a variety of font styles, and choose which one was most appropriate for the overall theme of our music video. This also enabled us to successfully convey our house style. Below shows the developed lyrics page, with new font.
There needed to be another element that linked the lyrics page to the digipak. So doodles were done over the lyrics page. We made sure the doodles weren't "girly" (I did these - it was weird because unconsciously you felt the need to doodle stars... which is quite feminine). Some of the drawings relate to the music video, and some are just random.
The image below has lowered saturation and the doodles are made lighter. We did this because the text, with the doodles seemed to be unnoticeable. Which was a disadvantage to the doodles, considering the main aspect of this side of the digipak was the lyrics.
After comparing the lyrics page to the digipak front and back, we discovered that they did not co-ordinate at all. The font (which we later used for the digipak cover) matched, but it was light in colour scheme. Therefore, Jemma brilliantly inverted the colours, to create these!! (Look below!) By inverting the colours to red and black, it matched the house style of the front and back digipak covers, but was also a striking image in its own right.
After some brief user feedback from our very reliable classmates, we found that the doodles crowded the page and made the lyrics harder to read. So the doodle layer on photo shop was removed, and new doodles were done. These were more relevant, and added the "fun-quirky" theme we wanted to convey, without removing the focus on the lyrics.
There needed to be another element that linked the lyrics page to the digipak. So doodles were done over the lyrics page. We made sure the doodles weren't "girly" (I did these - it was weird because unconsciously you felt the need to doodle stars... which is quite feminine). Some of the drawings relate to the music video, and some are just random. 
The image below has lowered saturation and the doodles are made lighter. We did this because the text, with the doodles seemed to be unnoticeable. Which was a disadvantage to the doodles, considering the main aspect of this side of the digipak was the lyrics. 
After comparing the lyrics page to the digipak front and back, we discovered that they did not co-ordinate at all. The font (which we later used for the digipak cover) matched, but it was light in colour scheme. Therefore, Jemma brilliantly inverted the colours, to create these!! (Look below!) By inverting the colours to red and black, it matched the house style of the front and back digipak covers, but was also a striking image in its own right.
After some brief user feedback from our very reliable classmates, we found that the doodles crowded the page and made the lyrics harder to read. So the doodle layer on photo shop was removed, and new doodles were done. These were more relevant, and added the "fun-quirky" theme we wanted to convey, without removing the focus on the lyrics.
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