Photos i plan to use

Dropthatdirtbass Female-Mc's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

These are the images that I plan to use. My idea for these images is to outline the figures, separate them from the original background then add a white background to them with a slightly bigger width so they look like scrap book pieces, Im going to use this technique for the images that have the duo in them i.e. the images with just Tina and Zara, individually and together. The image where they are back to back will be the image that is going to cover the whole of the inside of the digipak & the graffiti image is the image that i will use for the back.

Where my ideas have from

Mock

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Outside

Inside & CD Disc

Rough idea of my Digipak

Front and back cover of my digipak, displaying the artist, XO and the track list on the back with the company label, barcode and record company rights/agreement. 

This is the inside of the Digipak , where there will be a picture going across of the artist shown in a distinct way to show the creative, funky side of the artist.  The picture will also go over the cd as a part of it.

A rough layout of the advertisement to show off the artist which will be found in a number of pop magazines.The bottom right hand corner shows a picture of the artist but this is now going to replaced with the actual debut album.

3 annotated digipaks and magazine covers

This Digipak is by Selena Gomez and the Scene.

 The Genre of music that they specialize in is Pop music which is the Genre of music our artist specialises in, You can see by the digipak that they are appealing to the Pop fans, this is mainly through the colour scheme and mise en scene of images. Pop music is Often listened to by young girls, The albumums colour scheme is Pink and white, two colours that girls really like, to add to this there are pink flowers. Flowers can be seen as something that girls like and again because of the colour scheme they are pink (which appeals to girls). Also the artist reaches out to the audience as well in these Images. She symbolizes what a pop star should look like, pretty with make up and jewelery and long hair wearing a pretty dress, this would appeal to girls because that is what girls want to be like. Lastly the Glow, the glow adds a nice touch to the album and makes it look pretty and that is often what pop albums are supposed to look like, 'Pretty'.

One Direction

 One Direction is one of the worlds most known Pop Bands, Just like Selena Gomez, there fans are predominately female. Even though they are a boy band and they have produced a digipak that is boyish to represent themselves, they have also ensured that their album appeals to their core female fans at the same time. The album spells out the pop Genre, The image is Funny and the boys look like they are having fun and that's what pop music is all about, Having fun. Also the bright colours and the font add to this as they work well with the image to create the 'Pop Album' feeling.

The Saturdays

 

 Poster

Importance & Functions of digipaks to the industry

A Digipak is important to the music industry because it serves as a Luxury Item for them to sell the artist. They are also used to make an Identity for an Artist, If we take Katy Perry's Digipak for example, It conveys the image that she is trying to portray ' The Candy Girl', we see her lying in a cloud that is supposedly Candy floss and we see 2 CD's, one in the style of a donut and the other a lolly pop.

Although these are exspensive to produce compared to MP3's, there is still a space in the market for them.

Digipak's are also important to the core fans who want an item that is totally related to the artist, it serves as a physical connection to the artist the video below kind of expresses this.

 

Last Years Digipak

 This is the Digipak that I created for the practice summer work we did earlier this year. I think the strengths of this Digipak is the layout, Colour scheme, Font and Image. The two Font's that I chose to use worked really well together, the 'Madonna' font gives the digipak an edgy style whereas the 'Vogue' font makes it slick and smooth and I feel as if they both work well together and represent the artist. I think the layout was strong because of its simplicity, no extra bits were added and all that you needed to know was clearly shown, and I feel the choice I made to cut out the artist from the original image and add an effect that goes with the colour scheme was a good idea because it makes the digipak look really nice.

One of its weaknesses was not adding all the labels, usually on the back of an album cover it has a bar code and the logo of the record company and although i remembered the barcarole I forgot about the record label, I also forgot about the serial number that usually goes on the strip in the middle. Another thing is the audience, when i was creating this digipak I was only thinking about weather it looked nice or not, I forgot to think about weather it would appeal to my audience or if I could design something that appealed to all audiences.