This post is mainly to jot down some brief ideas for the artwork of the digi pack.
1) One idea I come up with is a picture of the beach sea front that will continue throughout each seperate side of the digpack sleeve, like one continuous picture. During research into the target audience, several members said that they would imagine the beach as a suitable place to shoot the music video due to what the lyrics of the song imply. It also has the water theme that the song lyrics include " and I'd swim upstream for you".
2) Another idea I've hand is to have a picture of a mans and a womans hand such as the actor's and actress' we used in our music video with them holding hands and wearing a ring. Also have words written on their hands in pen that say the word "love" in many different languages. I think this would be a romantic picture and represent the love of the couple and the lyrics and what the song is about. I think this image would work in black and white as this is conventions of romance such as those scenes that appear in Sin City when the couple are in black and white. I could make certain aspects of the album art in colour, such as the woman reds dress and lipstick in sin city. Perhaps have their rings in colour so the rings stands out and the audience could see that the couple are married and this song could be to do with love.
3) Below is a picture of a simple idea I have came up with of a recurring theme of newspaper clips forming a collage background. This is simple but effective as it arises questions about the newspaper stories and the meaning of them relating to the music. I have choosen Chinese extracts, which add another level of questions arising for the audience and make them think about why this theme was chosen and how it relates to the music.
Some good initial ideas Harry. It would be good for you to make more detailed comparisons to existing products (especially with images and in-depth analysis). You could start with the Coldplay sleeve, as you already refer to it. Your image of your simple idea is very unconventional for the genre, perhaps you could analyse your idea in greater detail.
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