Digipak analysis
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This digipak for a Michael Jackson album depicts the artist in his two most famous dance moves, establishing a motif that audiences associate with him. It includes a collage of photos of Jackson within his silhouette, creating a unique memorial tribute after his death compiling his famous songs. The digipak exemplifies Richard Dyer's concept of a star as an image constructed from various materials like songs, album art, and media coverage, drawing on Jackson's performance, songs, and media images to celebrate his lasting significance as a popstar.
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Analysis of digipaks magazine advertising
The document discusses the common elements found in digipak advertisements for magazines. It notes that they typically feature an image of the artist, image of the album cover with quotes about the artist's success, indications of the musical genre, and basic information about the album. They also usually include the artist's website and social media links. The document then analyzes specific examples of digipak advertisements for artists James Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Frank Sinatra, noting how the designs are tailored to each artist's image and style while still including standard information.
Media digi pack music albums
This document analyzes and summarizes several album covers, including Drake's "Take Care" which features a painting representing Drake as an artist and symbols of wealth, spirituality, and disappointment. ASAP Rocky's "Goldie" cover prominently features gold, representing wealth and power. Michael Jackson's "Greatest Hits" highlights his famous tracks and status as the "King of Pop".
Brain storming album artwork ideas
The document discusses ideas for album artwork for a music video and artist. It notes that most rock album artwork features surreal illustrations rather than representing the artist's image. It also mentions that many artists in this genre hire illustrators to create the artwork to provide publicity for the illustrator. However, some bands do feature their image on the cover to give the album a sense of identity that audiences can easily understand.
Progression of the star image
Michael Jackson began his career with The Jackson 5, achieving great success as a group. As a solo artist, his music transitioned to a more commercial, synthetic style to appeal to wider audiences. His career achievements include numerous records and awards. Similarly, Snoop Dogg found early success with N.W.A. but later broadened his sound and collaborated with pop artists. Both artists cultivated absent celebrity personas that engaged fans from a distance despite ubiquitous public profiles.
Digipak key terms and analysis
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1) It examines digipaks from Domino Records, the label of indie band Arctic Monkeys. The digipak uses unusual colors and images of the band looking down to appeal to indie fans who don't want the band to become mainstream.
2) It analyzes Michael Jackson's digipaks released through Sony Music. These use generic pop fonts and silhouette images of Jackson dancing to appeal to his target audience and leverage his iconic style and moves without showing his face.
3) It provides insights into how digipak design reflects the artist's brand and aims to appeal to their target audience through visuals,
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This digipak features a motif of Michael Jackson to help brand the artist and associate the motif with him. It depicts Jackson in two of his most famous dance moves, making the packaging unique to him. As the album was released after his death, the digipak acts as a memorial to Jackson through a collage of photos within his silhouette, honoring the late star in an interesting and unique way.
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This short Digipak document discusses an album art packaging that features recurring motifs and images associated with the artist across multiple pages or panels, allowing viewers to connect the visuals to the musician.
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A magazine is being created that is similar to NME, a popular UK music magazine. Research shows NME targets a male audience using darker colors, while brighter colors could attract a wider audience. Conventions for music magazines include featuring a music artist on the cover and main story, and using eye-catching fonts that contrast with the magazine's main color.
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The document outlines plans for a magazine, including using unisex colors like red, light blue, and green to appeal to both men and women. It also discusses using a clean font to look professional but possibly an "unclean" font to attract more men interested in hardcore rap. The cover story will focus on the artist on the front cover and will vary depending on if it's a male or female star. Images mentioned include a cover star and competition sticker on the front page to generate interest.
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- 1. This is a Michael Jackson digipak, this shows a reoccurring motif of the artist, this is good for the branding of the artist as people will associate the motif with the artist itself. This digipak is unique to Michael Jackson himself as it depicts him in his 2 most famous dance moves. I believe this album was made after he died so the compilation of his previous famous songs would be like a memorial to him or a remembrance. Also the collage of photos of Jackson himself within his silhouette allows this digipak to be interesting and unique to the star himself. This links into Richard Dyers Star construct, He says that a star is an image constructed from a range of materials such as: Songs, Album art, Performance and Media coverage. This digipak links into it as maker of it has used Michael’s songs, performance and media coverage to create this Digipak, this is seen from the song list at the back and the images within Jackson’s silhouette.
- 2. • This also links in with Richard Dyer as he explains that popstars and pop performers are different. He states that popstars have a brand awareness and have lasting significance. This is true for Jackson as this is a remembrance album dedicated to him after his death, it shows his most famous songs and the fact that they gave him a memorial album shows his lasting significance to the public. • Richard Dyer talks about Stars being constructs and fake, this could be true with Michael as he would have many images of himself as a star or public figure. This can be seen through is many personas used during his career for example: his biker gang persona during his album ‘Bad’