Completed Digipak

Having used this template we were able to create our digipak on Adobe Photoshop CS5

Our Front Cover

For our digipak we really wanted to convey how our artist is trying to break from her long kept silence, this is why although the artist has her mouth shut, she can be seen (in almost a x-ray like fashion) with musical instruments (guitar, drums, microphones, musical lyrics and a speaker) in her throat (to symbolise her new found voice). The effect we have chosen is great, as it emphasises the colours well, linking visually to our use of the rubix cube (which we feel represent the manipulative game she's trying to break free from)! (Hence our album is called 'Loud'.)

Spine

Our spine involves the name of our band ('Disciples of Rock' - as we follow that genre specifically), as well as including some white slanted lines (that we think are symbolic to guitar strings - something used often within the songs as well as the video).








Inside Left

For our inside left cover, we opted to show our artist in an almost evolutionary stage (starting from an almost unnoticeable ball hidden in the corner of the room, until she reaches her new found freedom of speech). We also felt this filter added the idea of not only sound waves but chains (again what she's breaking free from).

Inside right

We have included a bright colourful background to emphasis the loudness of our album and then the vinyl is a record player including the title of the album and the name of our band. The colours link to the rubix cube we used within the music video and emphasis our theme of a 'game'. In addition the messy overlapping lines convey the 'loudness' of the album and video.

Back Cover

Our back cover simply shows the songs within the album (with the number one hit at the top, so it draws in the most attention). And although quite simple with not too much overcroading, it still remains pretty bold and distinctive adding to the theme of being loud. We included not only the barcode but the production teams logo and iTunes (a possible site you could purchase it from).

Finished product

Audience Feedback

I have chosen to get some audience feedback on our finished ancillary products from Caitlin because she was interviewed by us before the construction of our products and told us what she would expect from the video particularly as well as other rock related products like the digipak and magazine advertisement. Therefore by interviewing her after the construction I am able to see if we have kept to those expectations and if the ancillary items would actually appeal to her.

Audience Feedback

This audience feedback is from a fellow media studies student (who falls into our target audience), by asking the opinion of a fellow student I am able to get greater analyse on the techniques we applied and if she believes they worked with our chosen genre of rock. Whereas someone else not aware of the technical side of things would perhaps give a slightly more vague opinion, furthermore I believe my fellow media students to be harsher critics when assessing my ancillary products because they now what techniques could improve it (and the harsher the remark, the more support it offers me).  

CD cover

Possible pictures for our album cover

On our album cover for the CD we want to include images of some of the equipment we used, however we need our images to be shown on a Matt black background (so it didn't appear in a white box on the CD)! So I took the images we wanted and using word document I was able to use tools to get rid of any background, leaving just the image itself and then I placed each on to a black background and screenshot them (ready for use in Adobe Photoshop).

Digipack ideas for layout

Digipack design ideas

Analysing music magazine advertisements

                                Magazine Advertisements

Jesse.J's magazine advertisement for her album 'Who are you'

Having analysed this advertisement I found that there are some specific key factors that we as a group should use to attract an audience for our music video, such as:

• the artist name
• a picture of the artist
• the album name
• the best selling song on the album - we could make this 'what do you want from me' as it'd make someone viewing it more likely to go straight to that song and its video
• logos of the record label/s
• where you can find the song such as the artist's very own website or somewhere like iTunes and HMV...

There are actually some other key factors that we could consider to include for our magazine advertisement, such as:

• the release date
• any reviews to make the album seem better

Its therefore evident that Jessie.J is trying to rely solely on her status alone in order to sell the album as she hasn't found it necessary to include further details. In conclusion we need to think about what details our artist needs to inform their audience with and how we could be display them to attract the target crowd.



Analysing music magazine advertisements

 Analysing conventions of a magazine advert for a CD: 

I looked at the Arctic Monkey's advertisement for their CD within a magazine, looking at the conventions of the layout, colour, text and themes. The name of the artist was the biggest on the ad, showing that they rely on their branding alone to draw attention. The CD was a medium close up of a girls face, showing that the artists are not even on the advertisement, which could suggest they are not interested in promoting themselves/ their image, but the music itself. 

The main conventions that are normally seen within a magazine advertisement for music is:

1) The artists name

2) A picture of the artist/band

3) The logo or name of the record label

4) Reviews in the style of stars out of five

5) The release date of the album

6) The albums names, in addition to some of the previous singles being advertised

Album Name

These are words that we have brainstormed in relation to our song genre and artist, we hope to get an idea of an album name from these.

When brainstorming we thought about how the artist is singing about her controlling relationship and how now she is tired of her partners 'game' and how she just wants 'independence' rather than the 'mayhem' its causing her to feel. We also believed that her relationship could resemble a natural disaster hence the use of 'riptide'...

But overall we like 'independence', 'play' and 'loud' the most, therefore we hope to use these within our album name.