Finished Digipack

This is our finished digipack, with front and back cover, two CDs and two pictures. 

Change to CD Cover and Digipack:

We showed our teacher our progress so far on the CD cover and digipack, he advised us to add a graffitti theme to the picture of David Cameron and Nick Clegg. This theme resembles the controversy the two Prime Ministers cause whilst in power and how some people hate the both of them, we added both a halo to be ironic and a moustache and lipstick on the two characters . To add to this, we have changed the plain CD covers which we had and put a union jack covering both of them, to again stick to the London, patriotic theme.

Album Cover

After doing some more research and discussing it as a group we have decided that the best choice for our album cover would to include images of the characters from our video, while still conveying some of the same simple themes, such as background colour, from our first idea. We feel that using an image of the characters would stand out more, and people would atuomatically recognise and make a link with our music video. We still plan to try and include the teacup image in our digipack, as we all like this idea.

Digipack Research

Digipacks usually contain 4 sides, but some contain 6. Most albums can now be purchased in a special digipack edition, where they include pictures, lyrics and other artwork from the band. 

This digipack for Kanye West's 'Late Registration' probably contains more than 8 sides, but contains a poster, images and lyrics all relating to the album. I think that one of the most important features of a digipack are the images. For our digipack we plan to use some of the photo's taken from our photoshoot and some photo's of our locations. 

Digipack Research

This is the album cover for 'Sunny Days' by Kid British. I like this cover as it subtly conveys themes of Britain without using a union jack, as most covers tend to do. The album title, 'Sunny Days', is an ironic statement about British weather, which is always dreary. The background image emphasises this and could be recognised as quintessentially British. The text effect on the artist's name also shows the British theme. I think this album cover is really clever in conveying themes without making them obvious. 

Digipack Research

This is the album cover for Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'. I particularly like this cover as the images shown all coney to the theme of America. The Back image of New York shows an iconic image of an iconic place, and is instantly recognisable to America. The woman in the center of the cover is recgonised as a diner waitress, and these are also typically American. I have taken inspiration from this cover as our group have decided to include a British theme in our digipack, and use images that are immediately recognised as being British. 

Digipack Research

This is the album artwork for The Clash - London Calling released in 1979. The digipack includes the album cover, and two inserts. The style of artwork used was very typical of the punk rock genre at the time, with the scruffy handwritten style of text and the black and white images. The artwork for the album was inspired by Elvis Presley's debut album cover. For our cover we plan to stick with the characteristics of the genre like the original, but modernise it to help it appeal to our target audience.