Designs that inspire me for digipak cover

Before designing to front cover of a digipak I need to realize what covers (either cds or promos) inspire me for my digipak.

Kate Nash cd cover:




The use of photography combined with graphic art is much more appealing than just having a photograph of the artist. I may use this idea when designing and also it has been edited like cutouts and has block colours. Many of the music classed as "Indie" us block colours.


















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Sleeve examples

I have collected a variety of sleeves and this will be helpful when designing my foldout digipak.

The first two digipaks came from a music magazine targeting young people that listen to rock music, mainly male but can be female. The magazine is called rocksound and I recieved a brigade digipak and a digipak created by the magazine.

On the front cover the rocksound one, the graphics are very simple compared to The Brigade digipak because the first one is focusing on a few different tracks on one disc to promote their magazine so it uses a clever image to link with the title "Bugging your ears".

Both of the digipaks are made out of cardboard material and are not fold outs because now indie magazines use it as it is environmentally friendly and is less costly. So therefore when I create a design for a digipak it needs to be made out of cardboard

Overall the layout for the non foldable digipak would be a graphic or photographic image for the front cover, a title and a list of songs (or in my case music videos) that are included in it and maybe suggest there is a free poster inside the fold out sides.

Genres of music

There are many different categoric genres of music to choose from when deciding on what music video to create such as...

Electronic

Indie

Rock and pop

Hip hop

Indie

Folk

Classical

And when choosing one genre there can be sub genres as well, for example indie music has sub genres of electronic indie, indie pop, acoustic indie.

I have mentioned this specific genre as I will be using this genre for my music video and will be using more than one sub genre. Both acoustic indie and pop indie will be used.

Plan for thursday lesson

For thursday 18th of novembers lesson I will be looking at music adverts in magazine for promoting a digi-pak and make notes. Also I will make a few designs for the front cover of the digipak and the advertisement.
I will experiment with taking photos (angles) editing and typography

What I will need for this lesson:
A camera and the cable to it
Writing equipment
Music magazines as resources

Genre conventions- Music video

Genre conventions for a indie music video can vary greatly so that is why I need to research music videos to help make decisions about my own. I have already named some artists music video but I will give a few examples of others...
The Cribs
Kooks

Genre conventions- advertisement

I will be researching the conventions of magazine adverts advertising a music digipak for the same reason I have stated before, to have the typical conventions in my advertisement.

The typical conventions of a advert for a music cd is usually a blown up version of the cd cover with the release date at the bottom of the page. There are many adverts in NME magazines or other magazine specifically marketed towards music (Kerrang etc) so I will be looking at these types of magazines for adverts.

Here are a few that would be typical conventions of adverts :)

Genre conventions- Digipak

I'm researching into generic conventions of music digipak covers that are of the same genre as to what I am going to create because I need to use these conventions with making my cover. If I do not it will be confusing to have a different genre front cover to the music.
So to start off I will view different album covers of what I consider (and other people consider) to be indie bands.

First of I looked at the front cover of The Wombats. A while ago they were current but not so much now but I know that one of their album covers have been the usually convention of a indie digipak cover. As you can seethe cover is formed by strong, bright coloured photographs all formed into a background. Their cover links with the conceptial music videos they have because this is just a conceptial background. Basing their cover around colour and objects rather than a specific idea. The ideas are very simple, the writing especially with the name of the band and the album name over the background in bright colours.

This is the same with The Maccabees album "Wall of arms" as on the front cover there is plastic dolls that symbolise the band it's self (copies of them) with brightly coloured clothing. This is a combination of both conceptual ideas and the band.

The next cover I will look at is The Libertines (one of the band members of the band suggested this type of style for their video, so I will look at their album cover as well). Again this is very simple idea but it is not a conceptual cover, instead it is a portrait photograph of all the band members in costume (they wore this in the video) so it is easy to recognise the band. It doesn't have bright colours like The Wombats because The Libertines like to stick more to the reality of things, like performing but the costumes create more of a fun mood.