2. Band name and Album title:
Black background: The only text included on the front. Audience have limited information at a
relating to the album first glance. Red font coincides with the colours present within the main
title and contrasting image. Font is sans-serif and keeps the simplicity of the front. Central position
against the main – one of the first things the audience will see.
image.
Main image:
Series of close-ups
graphically edited Stereotypes/Codes and
through colour and Conventions of Rock genre:
layout – Bathe’s The bold colours and
Enigma Code; where capitalisation of the text
is the light being connote volume and aggression
wasted? The band that is commonly associated
members with this genre of music.
themselves?
3. In-house style: consistency Band members confirmed to be most likely the ones Stereotypes of genre are present again
through colour scheme & who are ‘wasting light’ – the graphic effects upon through the connotations of rebellion and
presence of the band the main image have diminished the image to an aggression through the band members
members within the extent, making it unclear and ‘blinding’ with colour. ‘wasting light’ and occupying the majority
artwork. They dominate both panels of the inside of the of space.
digipak, further supporting this idea.
4. Sleeve:
Maintains the simplicity
of the digipak’s design.
Black background,
band’s logo in the
center.
Yellow from the colour
scheme has been
incorporated to add
variation to both the
background and main
image as well as to
contrast against the
darkness and produce
further connotations of
light.
Yellow flecks of colour:
Connotes waste –
adhering to the concept
of the digipak. Almost
makes the background
appear eroded, again
producing connotations
and associations with
genre.
5. Inside booklet:
A series of performance shots graphically enhanced and
manipulated to achieve the same effect as seen in the main image
of the front and inside of the digipak.
6. Right hand page provides an aesthetic variation of
information for the audience.
Final two pages of the sleeve: Credits have been included
Promo shot of the band with the same graphic effect as again here.
previous shots of their practice/live shows.
Laid out in text boxes
superimposed over another
image – creates an edgy
appearance to the page.
7. Disc: Band’s name and album title is placed in the
Mostly black, same capitalised, sans-serif font and placed
continuing on with at the top-center again in continuity from
the in-house style. the front of the digipak.
Yellow flecks of colour
as previously seen on Image of a guitar is
the sleeve. the basis for the disc’s
artwork and has been
The addition of white graphically edited and
flecks suggests an manipulated to be
increase in intensity – somewhat distorted –
either in the light yet again perhaps for
being wasted or the the creation of
volume of the band’s connotations of
music – also genre.
connoting further
stereotypes of the
rock genre.
Copyright
Credits to both the information has
producing and been included
mixing engineers around a section
has been included of the disc’s
– superimposed circumference in
over a black order to provide
textbox for clarity. necessary credit
without
Record label has significantly
also been credited impacting upon
through the the aesthetics of
inclusion of their the digipak.
logo.
8. Consistent black
background.
Main image is
unidentifiable due
to the graphic
effects & blurring.
Text:
Capitalised,
sans-serif like
the band name
and album title
seen elsewhere
throughout the
digipak, white
with some Conventional
yellow bleeding feature of a bar
into it. code placed at the
bottom-right
Left-justified and corner of the back.
laid out in the
conventional
column structure Badges and logos of the companies Producing and mixing engineer have been credited in continuity with
of track listing. involved in the production and the disc itself. Smaller text displays links to social media, official
distribution of the digipak/album. websites for the band and record companies and further copyright
information.
