Noel Gallagher Digipak

Noel Gallagher band 'High Flying Birds' are a british band that formed in 2010, they have just released there first album called High Flying Birds. Here are three single covers and the cover of the album, bottom left. We found the album cover in Q magazine, which then led us to search for some of the single covers. This was also used as a magazine advert in Q which took up  awhole page, this was useful to us because it helped us see what adverts from our genre look like.

Originally we took some pictures of Glenn facing the camera, but  upon further research you can clearly see that in most of these album covers Noel is not facing the camera. Except the album cover, but even that is blurred, this research has altered our original ideas. We will have to make a CD cover for our Digipak and we will have to take into consideration house style, which these four covers do very well. The title font 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, is the same across all four, this keeps consistency and continuity across the covers. It also means that if you had thousands of album covers you would easily be able to group these four together. The song names are even in the same font which contributes to the house style. We searched on da fonts, and looked at the handwritten section of the fonts, we looked at the effect Noel Gallagher has created doing this and decided to see what it would look like, so Adam found a list of fonts that we fitted this description.

On further analysis you can see that the pictures have little relevance to the song title, however the picture for the cover of What a Life, uses a location that is seen in the video. However 'The Death of you and Me', the location on the cover is not even seen throughout the video, this gives us something to ponder. Do we use a location that is seen in our video, it could be shot from a different angle or height, this will help create a link between our video and CD cover.

There is also a link between them in terms of the lighting and effects used, if you look carefully all the single cover, the colours start at an faded turquoise. It then changes across to an orange, this is a subtle touch but it works with the pictures. I had a go at doing this on Photoshop, if found a plain picture of Noel Gallagher. I originally tried doing it over the whole picture but it did not look right. So I used the Quick Selection Tool, to cut out the background, I selected the gradient tool and found the colours that matched the effect on the cover 'What a Life'.















We have decided not to use the 'normal' setting for the overlay, but changed to 'colour burn', we felt that it gave us the effect that we wanted.