Credits and Thank You Page Influence

For my credits and thank you page, Taylor Swift and Gabrielle Aplin have influenced me the most. I really loved the way Taylor included such a personal touch into her thank you's and I loved the layout of Gabrielle's, so I kind of just combined the two to create my own:

The image that I have used at the bottom of the page is an image of the artist in the recording studio and I thought this added a personal touch to the thank you's, as Taylor Swift brought her personal touch through words. 

The title inspiration came from Gabrielle Aplin because she used the same font throughout her album, which was the same font that she used for her thank you and credits pages. So, I have followed that tradition all throughout my booklet and the font that I have used for the titles on this page is the same font as I have used for my song titles and my album title, which is what Gabrielle does and that was how I was influenced. 

As you can see, the pictures that Gabrielle uses throughout her digipak don't actually change much in terms of the colour and the expression that she pulls in each photo, Gabrielle's Booklet, so I decided to use a similar image to what I had already used in my digipak, which is this one: 

and I then chose to use this one opposite my credits/thank you page:

There is a clear influence between my digipak and Gabrielle's, in terms of the same colour/tone images in some of the pages and also the way some of the pages are set out, where their is two-three songs to a page and also the way that she uses the nature images behind a faded black box. This is where I got all of my influences from; however I mixed them together with Taylor Swift's idea, by having lyrics going up the side of a page and by having an image acting as the background to a page or going across both pages with the lyrics on top. 

Taylor has a lot of thank you's and credits and so does Gabrielle Aplin; however I don't have many because one person, Paul Soler, played and recorded the instruments for my tracks and just one person recorded my lyrics onto the tracks that Paul had already created, so I was able to create just one page for both the credits and thank you's.

Taylor's credits are also mainly on each lyric page and the people who wrote the song are named on the same page. As you can see above, that is Taylor's thank you page and she has a lot of thank you's because her album made it so big and she therefore needed a bigger team, having more to thank; however I just had a small team and have addressed the thank you's towards that team within my thank you section. 

Before I made the thank you page, I studied the kind of thank you's that Gabrielle and Taylor were making and I also looked at their credits, allowing me to create mine. These were the notes I made before creating this page: