First Digipak ideas

The first thing I'm going to think about is a theme, a style; something related to the song and video. I could just play with the light effects, take some screenshots/photos of Parkour or use the sparker effect used by the band on their album cover, but that seems a bit lazy and not particularly imaginative.

I set myself on the theme of "Flowing". Here are the things that jumped to mind.

An experimental online game called "flOw", created by a development team I have a great interest in, who specialise in experimental media. I recommend you play the game here. I did an art project (which contributed to my fail grade and my resentfulness regarding the subject) which I have posted below. If I were to look further at this game, I would have a great deal of knowledge to back me up.

Next, I thought of Skiing, a major passion of mine, and I feel that the smooth motion and elegant style of the sport would fit perfectly with the theme, however, with Parkour as my chosen sport, using another would be much too out of place. On top of this, it would be hard to get any photos living in Norwich, where the dry ski slope doesn't quite look as epic as solid white mountains.

I then jumped to an art piece I saw recently on Vimeo, which builds upon the artwork of__, an artist who experimented with the "smoke" seen when some liquids are dropped in water.




The piece is more a music video than an idea for an image, and it is too unrelated as it stands, but is worth watching for the visual style. This directly led me to a CD cover that already uses a similar style. I love how the colours in this merge so fluidly, flowing subtly into each other. The use of colour is fantastic, and wouldn't be hard to do. I could even merge it with the light streaks somehow, maybe using only the use of colour. Then I thought of the following, which uses colour in the same way, but implements it over an image, which is striking, and beautiful.

I really like this piece, and would like to see it combined with a powerful pose created using the motions of Parkour.
I found a few tutorials to help me with this, which look fairly easy to do, and so this is something to further look into. Many of these use similar ideas to some of the other things I have looked into in this post.
http://kailoon.com/photo-edit-coloring-effects/
http://photoshop8x.com/view_tut.php?id=5
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/the-making-of-constant-slip/
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/dazzling-dance-photo-manipulation.html
http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-digital-bokeh-effect-photoshop


Here are another two related videos that serve as additional inspiration.

The Sony Bravia advert recently inspired me to take up Flash programming so I could create an application where multicoloured balls fall from the top of the screen, using perspective to create a mock 3D effect. It failed miserably, but it might be worth trying again if I can think of a good reason to do so.