2. WHAT TO INCLUDE?
Minimum of 4 sides
Special features to include- e.g. pull out lyrics, poster, freebies- perhaps it could include a
diary saying ‘give a voice to your thoughts’. This matches with the message of my music
video that everyone has a voice, which needs an outlet.
Track list at the back if its an album
For realism of an authentic cover use Bar code, music company logo and information,
and copyright information all at the back of the album
Themes of the music video to be represented on the album cover, incorporating the sense of
a lack of voice and isolation from society, which is conveyed in my music video. After
researching several digipack covers, I discovered that they represented the mood and tone within
the songs in that album.
3. THE TYPE OF DIGIPACK I
WANT
5 sides
2 inside flaps
The CD disk containing phrases of the song, reading like a diary
entry.
1st
2nd
Front
cover
Back
cover
Outside
Close
flaps
away
from
you.
Inside
4. ANALYSING ALBUM COVERS
Rihanna has a reoccurring colour scheme running throughout her
album cover, which is red which makes her album eye catching and
reinforces the theme of love and passion which is present in her songs.
I also aim to make my digipack cover to represent the
themes present in the music video.
5. ANALYSING ALBUM COVERS
Immediately the audience is drawn to the
artist on the front cover, for there is a
shadow depth of field, meaning that
the background is blurred and she is in
focus. The background colours
resemble that of a desert featuring
warm tones like brown and yellow,
which reflects the album title ‘Desert
Rose’. On my album cover I would also
have to represent the singles title
‘Silence’ by representing the artist as
isolated. The women’s black clothing is
a contrast to the soft colours in the
background, making her more visually
striking, establishing her as the artist.
6. CONTINUATION
Additionally, the women is holding a sombrero, which has cultural
implications, that she is from Mexico or America as its typically worn in those
countries.
On one of the inside covers there is a man and a women sitting down, looking
away from each other, perhaps suggesting their unhappiness. This potentially
reveals that the album is about relationship issues.
The warm colours are reoccurring throughout the digipack, which adds to the
western idea as it very much resembles colours associated with a desert.
7. HOW I CAN APPLY THIS TO
MY DIGIPACK
After observing several album covers, I feel like I need to represent the themes and
storyline of my music video through the images and colours I select.
Like the digipacks I analysed, I need to capture the songs genre on my digipack.
Rihanna’s album cover represented the pop genre due to the very sensual images,
showing the main focus was on the stars image. In contrast, the album ‘Desert Rose’ a
country feel was established through the rural background.
I need to make my artist my main focus.
Need to find a suitable colour scheme. For example, black may be the predominant
colour of my digipack to represent depression.
9. PLANNING OUT IDEAS
FRONT COVER?
Because my main theme is about a lack of voice in society, maybe using a mouth cover
with the singles title ‘Silence’ reinforces this idea.
Or put a cross over her mouth ‘X’
The fact that we don’t see the artists face also enhances her isolation and irrelevance in
society.
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Additionally, the fact that we cant
SILENCE
11. PLANNING OUT IDEAS BACK
COVER This could potentially work for
the back cover because of the
1.Silence
2.Hit Me
Down Sonny
3. Hang it up
4.Give it
back
5. Soul
killing
sheer sadness and isolated
tone created in this image.
The fact that she’s on the side
of the frame further suggests
her segregation from society.
The dark lighting casts a
shadow over her face,
representing her depression.
12. BACK COVERS 2
The shot represents the artist as being in isolation
as she is walking alone across the beach.
Additionally, I would add a blue tinge to the image
to add to the lonely feel.
2.Help
1.Silence
13. INSIDE COVERS
For my inside covers, I was planning on having a spread of black
colour, which would spread across the three inside covers to
represent the key theme of depression.
14. The CD
disk could
include the
lyrics of
the song.
These lyrics
are
repeated
throughout
the song
and its
sounds
almost like a
girls diary
entry.
Therefore, I
used a
handwriting
style font.
Hold, hold your tongue
now and let them all
listen to your silence
Hold, hold your tongue now and let
them all
listen to your
silence.
Hold, hold your
tongue
now and let
them all
listen to your
silence. Hold, hold your tongue now
and let them all listen to your
silence. Hold, hold your tongue
now and let them all
listen to your silence
