2. Front Cover
For the front cover of my
digipak, I decided to focus on an
image representing the artist and
genre of the album. By having the
artist in the centre this makes him
the focus point of the main cover.
The genre is represented through
the artists image and clothing.
Wearing cropped bright trousers
with a pink vest top show
individuality, with statement army
boots. Accessories such as the
hat, sunglasses and necklace
further create this ‘Indie’
look, which is the genre of the
album. This look will hopefully
attract the target audience.
3. Front Cover
Before designing my front cover, I did some
research to find out the common conventions of
Indie/Pop digipaks. Florence and the Machine
inspired me to use an image of the artist as the
main focus of the album cover. As you can see, a
centre focus of the artist has been affectively used
therefore I used this convention to hopefully create
my own successful front cover.
Another inspiration was the band ‘Fun’. This album
also shows the convention of the band as the main
focus of the album cover. However, this album
cover expanded my ideas. The title is shown in a
formal font, whereas usually the word ‘fun’ is
expected to be written in a ‘fun’ way. This makes
the album cover different to others. Also, the
colour of the font matches with the clothes the
band are wearing. This creates cohesion within the
cover, linking it all as one. Therefore, I used this
idea by matching my title to the colour of the
artists jeans. However, whilst the ‘Fun’ album
shows a formal font and dull colour, I decided to
slightly challenge this convention by using yellow
within my title, as this is often seen as a ‘fun’
colour. I did this as I feel it will make my cover
stand out from the others, and create individuality
and furthermore attract my target audience of
4. Inside Cover
For my inside cover I decided
upon a simple image of the artist.
The image I took shows a
personal up close side to the
artist, looking directly at the
audience. This creates a more
personal look between the artist
and the audience as they will feel
he is looking at them, as apposed
to looking at the camera. By doing
this, I have challenged common
Indie/Pop conventions. The inside
cover will commonly be plain, or
showing some minor decorative
pattern. I didn’t want to follow this
convention as I felt this didn’t suit
the album ‘Fun’ and required a
more quirky approach.
5. Disc
For the disc, I have used a similar
image to the inside cover – it is
slightly different. I have decided to
follow the genre convention by
having the disc include an image of
the artist. I did this as I feel it allows
the disc to stand out, and remain
character without it’s case. By using
a similar image to the inside cover,
when the audience open the CD
case, they will have two very similar
images which have a personal,
direct look upon them. This
continues to create the relationship
between the artist and the audience.
Furthermore, the font used on the
disc is the same as the font on the
front cover, this continues the
cohesion of the digipak throughout.
6. Back Cover
For the back cover, I have used an
image of the artist but with a girl
aside him, looking at him over her
glasses. By having the girl do this,
this puts focus on the artist but also
focus on the song titles. As she is
looking in the direction of the artist
and the song titles, the audience will
follow her eyes. I have chosen to
include a girl within the image as the
album is focused around a
relationship and love. This image
therefore then gives the audience an
insight to what the album is about.
For this image, both the artist and
the female are wearing the same
vest top. This is to show the ‘indie’
genre by using a multi-gender top,
which isn’t common. Furthermore
