DigiPaks Mock

Digipack Mock

Digipak Mock up

Digipak and advertisement mock up

Short-list of fonts, colours, layout and design ideas

White

Fuchsia

Black

All these colour will feature in my Digipak. As a group we decided to make the colour Fuchia as our main colour or somthing similar as some of the softwares we used it was hard to find th correct colour. My font will be in black as it stands out almost next to almost any colour. Its also simple and I think the contrast between colour will look good on my Digipak.

Analyse Three Digipaks!!

The Digipak below is one for a reggea music icon Bob Marley. In this digipak you can see the light colours, green, yellow and Red which is shown throughout the whole Digipak. This I felt was important as it is one of the  most noticable difference between a album cover and a digipak. I felt i would imitate this idea in my digipak using my chosen colours. In addition theres a photo of Bob Marley, we can see his body from waist and above suggesting its a meduim close up. This gave me an idea as I felt I may also use a meduim close up of the artist in my digipak, However there are a lot more digipaks that influence my decisions of shots I would use. 

Bob Marley Digipak!

This is a Digipak of a well known recording artist Rihanna. There are 2 picture of Rihanna in her Digipak on the one to the left its a meduim close up of Rihanna which is a typical photo used on the front covers of Digipaks. Once again we see thatnthe use of colour is copied fron one panel the other. For example on the first panel there is a brown colour background and the last panel seems like the same photo taken just slightly further away.



Rihanna Recoding Artist Digipak!


This Digipak is olde than Rihanna but they have there similarities. In this digipak there are no photos but have a colour sheme which is reinforced throughout the digipak, similar to the Bob Marley and Rihanna digipaks as they also have a colour scheme imitated throughout.



Old Skool Digipak









Audience feedback

On Thursday the 9th December A2 media went to the cinema to view the finished videos for our coursework. It was a fun and exciting trip as it was a great way to see all the different videos that fellow A2 Students had produced.

Heres some feedback...

( Videos to be uploaded soon)

Analysis of 3 Digi packs

QUEEN:

This is a fairly old digi pack designed and published in the late 80's. You can see the colour scheme is fairly plain and the same image is used throughout. There is only one image used on the front of the digi pack.
The same pattern flows through the digi pack with a simple design that is similar and matches the 'QUEENS' famous and memorable logo.

Christina Aguliera

A modern artist, popular amongst a wide audience. Christina has released a number of albums. One of her most recent album 'stripped' shows her image.

You can see the difference between the older digi packs to the most recent released. The 'Stripped' digi pack primarily shows a vivid image of Christina known to all as being revealing and sexual. You can see the difference between 'Queen' and her digi pack as more modern and a bigger focus on the design rather than just the music.

Bob Marley

Bob Marley the most famous reggae artist to hit our charts. Bob Marleys digi pack has a strong colour theme throughout, focusing on the Jamaican and vibrnt colour theme, this digi pack shows it throughout. The digi pack only uses one large image of Bob Marley still blending into the colour scheme. This digi pack is very similar to 'Queen's mainly focusing on the design keeping it simple.

Analysis of three Digipaks

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins born 5 May 1988, known professionally as Adele is an English singer songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She is a multi-Grammy Awards nominee who has won two awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2009.

The front of her digipak is quite basic as it it a picture of her face , she used two colours them being black and white this is effective as the white contrasts against the black background making the font of the title (her name) stand out. This is simialr to the digipak i want to create as i want to keep it quite basic but effective as she has done here.

Robyn Rihanna Fenty born February 20, 1988, better known as simply Rihanna , is a Barbadian R&B recording artist and songwriter. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers. She subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head Jay-Z.

On this digipak there are 2 images of Rhianna , a full image of her and a meduim close up . At the bottom there are three different images of her , this is effective as it shows the albums she has done already. This didgipak gives me an idea as  for the middle of my digipak i wanted to have a similar image to the one on here of a full length image surrounded by acknowledgements . I also like the meduim to close up image of her as their is no writing but simply her posing.

                                                      

In this didgipak , it uses a number of colours but in the middle keeps the same theme running through, the front and back however use to differnt colour schemes the front cover is a mix of orange, blue, yellow and black and the back cover is just blue. The half image of Braden is plain but contrasts as he is wearing white against the blue also the colour used on the font also stands out.







Analysis of 3 Digipaks

Phil Collins

Phill Collins was born on the 30th Janurary 1951, he is an English song-writer, drummer and keybordist.Collins sang the lead vocals on several chart hits in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1978 and 1994, either as a solo artist or with Genesis.

As you can see his Digipak is quite simple and varies from a number of images. The front panel consistes of an image of a little boy playing the drums, in my opinion i do not think he should have done this because it has nothing to do with Phil Collins, wether he had been in the video it shouldnt have been done because it is and album based on a whole different songs, not just one. The font looks handwritten which i think works because it gives it a simple look. The black and white gives it an old fashioned look with the blur around the edges which works really well.

The Back which is the middle Panel constists of the image of the artist himself again this doesnt  make sense because he has an image of a boy at the front but then a picture of him self at the back which doesnt make him look like the main artitst, this picture is also bacl and white which corolates with the whole digipak. One thing i noticed was that there are a lot of texts which make the back look over crowded, which i think i wouldnt be botherd to read myself.

The middle Panel which is the last image are just a collage of images of records and record packets this in a way correlates with the whole digi pak because it is all old fashioned and reinforces old fashion entertainment.

if i had saw this in the shops i would have thought that the Genre of this album would have been Rock or Indie.

Keri Hilson

This is Keri Hilson an American R&B songwriter that was born in Georgia in 1982.  This is the Front of her Digipak. This Digipak really does catch my eye because of all the bright pictures and images that are used to make the digi pak stand out more. The title of the album is 'In my own world' so she uses the picture to try and tell a story, this picture of the clouds in the horizon shows that she is looking to the future. The big font looks like spot lights shining which shows her supiriority and her fame. The main picture of her is in black and white which does stand out and shows that it is her album.

The bottom image is the back of her digipak, this does correlate with the front cover, an image of her is used and also the same colour which work well, the same font is also used. The effects that is used in the background gives an image of the night aposing to the image of the sun rising at the front.  

Rihanna

This is Rihanna a Bajan/ American R&B recording artist and model contracted with Def Jam Recordings. She started off her career in 2005 with her first album ‘Music of the Sun’ which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200; which is the ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums.

Her album has a combination of gemres including R&B, Pop and Rock. The cover does unfact focus on the genre of rock i think because of the dark theme given, the costume and the make up that is used to rienforce and very dark look,There is also the letter R at the top right hand corner which could indicate her name or 'Rockstar'.The right hand is covering her right eye and her left eye is surrounded by thick black eye liner giving her a feline look.

The back of the album cover also shows characteristics of rock music established by the particular style that has been created for the artist. Her body language is aggressive towards the audience perhaps showing she is capable of defending herself and not scared to do so. i noticed that the text is in the same Ariel font used for the album’s title on the front cover, this again shows the correlation and link between the front and the back cover. I would say that the whole album is very dark and simple but very effective on the audience, although the colours are simple it still is eyecatching and makes you want to look at the smallest detail.

 As you can see the Cd also has a link between the the package, it is very simple and consists of the letter are that looks like it has been carved by a knife.