Resources for teaching CD covers/Digipaks

1. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
The Digipak

2. Digipak
• One of 2 subsidiary tasks
• Worth 10 marks = 1 grade

3. Mark Scheme
• Planning and Research 20
• Music video 40
• Digipak 10
• Advert 10
• Evaluation 20
• TotalTotal 100100

4. What we need to do
• Research digipaks
• Textual analysis of content
 Size
 Images
 Layout
 Text
 Colours

5. What is a digipak
• Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold
(book-style) paperboard or card stock
outer binding, with one or more plastic
trays capable of holding a CD or DVD
attached to the inside.
Source wikipedia

10. Front
Inside right -CDInside left
Back

13. Activity
• In your groups, make a detailed analysis of
the digipaks
• Make sure you analyse each pane separately

14. Action research
• Include an annotated analysis of a digipak
on your blog.
• Jpegs of these examples are on the blog

15. Feedback on findings

16. Practical issues
• Use DTP such as Pages
• Set up standard size
• Must be displayed on blog in a way which
can be viewed in actual size.
• Evaluation
• Annotated copy of finished product
• All on a page called “Digipak”

19. Deadlines
• Music Video
 Deadline for finished MV - End of January
 Any updates and further improvements by 1st
March
• Digipak
 Draft for feedback Friday 20th January
 Final on blog by Friday 3rd February

20. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
The Digipak