Digipak examples

Digipak Examples

Here there is some digipak examples of Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, as you can see the top one that represents gin and juice and is shown in a cartoon way which would back up the fact that its a laid back and a calm song, also it has the main character presented as a dog which is the way you would recognise the artist due to his popularity. The props in the image are also there for a reason, they show a certain lifestyle that the artist is living and hugely link to the props in the music video. On the second image you are shown the inside of a 50 Cent many men digipak, you already see the difference as it is laid out in a more serious way which also strongly links to the music video as you have a different more aggressive story line where the artist is being shot. The digipak has three sides and two are taken by the discs but one has a lot of writing describing his story and the life he has gone through. I will take this in consideration when making my digipak as I think its an effective and easy way to interest and intrigue the audience and on top of that it makes it look neat and in order. 

6/10/2013

Today I have looked at some examples of different digipaks in order to become more familiar with the task that I will be creating for my artist. I have noticed that the digipak cover and layout need to strongly link with the actual music video, therefore I have gathered that I should concentrate more on the 50 Cents one rather than the cartoon gin and juice one. I will include some background information about the artist inside the digipak as I think that it will make it look more professional and effective.

Inside of our digipak

While planning what the inside of our digipak should look like we came across an image that had four sides opening up so we had a plan to make ours look similar in the same layout. We have chosen to take photographs of our four characters including the artist, two kidnappers and the victim and place the images on the four sides. I think that this is an effective and interesting way of presenting a digipak as it is different than other digipaks also by having four different images as you open it you start to concentrate on all four rather than one and it becomes more interesting and your more likely to remember this digipak due to the specific design and layout that draws your attention. We have also had a second idea which included having four pictures of the main artist in different poses, we have thought that this will be easier as we could just take pictures of the artist and not all the characters which will take longer.
10/10/13
Today as a group we have concentrated on the inside of our digipak and have chosen a design that we like, after that we have planned that we will take pictures that we will include inside the digipak. also we have started to think how to make the main artist stand out more than the other characters and make him look more with power, therefore we have thought to wither have his name written above his image as our first thought but then we went on to think about having the three characters in black and white and the main artist in colour to make the audience know straight away who's the main artist and make him stand out. Next lesson we will concentrate on the back of our digipak.

Back of our digipak

We have started to look what we can have on the back of our digipak this part was not that hard as we knew we need the track list but the only tricky bit was choosing the main image. We had a few ideas such as an image of the car with the kidnappers inside it but we thought it would be too similar to our other images of the kidnappers so we thought why not have a dark dull image of the different weapons and tools that have been used in the video to make it look more scary and aggressive to the audience making them feel scared. I think this image will link to the genre very well as its a almost criminal world where most artist have experienced using those tools in some point of their life.

15/10/13

Today we have decide what we are going to have on the back of our digipak and have planned to bring in the needed equipment and take few images of it and in the end choose the best one. In this way we could carry the same style throughout  the whole of the digipak which is a dull but in the same moment effective design as it links hugely with our storyline and its not going to be colourful due to the criminal nature of the music video and the music genre.