Researching Into Digipaks

This here is the indie/rock band Arctic Monkey's digipak. I chose to look at their digipak in particular because they are similar to my own genre. I would that out of the digipaks that I have looked at that this one is my favourite. The front cover is very simple, with the mise-en-scene being just of a man smoking a cigarette, with the bands logo on the top left. I like the way that it is simplostic, yet it is interesting to look at, because this photo is not something that you would see on every album covers. Taking my digipak into consideration, my genre also has an element of pop, so it cannot be as 'grunge' looking as this, so I need to make it look slightly girly. My favourite of this digipak is the CD itself, with its image being cigarette butts. At the moment, I am in the process of making my draft of my digipak, so when it comes to refining the product, I may take something like this into consideration, maybe not something as harsh as cigarette butts, but something like a rough look location, or maybe even Blossoms lips. This would be good because the lips will connote the pop genre, but if she wore red lipstick, it would make it look sensual and also have connotations of danger, which would relate to my rock genre. The back cover relates to the front cover, which I like because it keeps the same theme running through the album, in this case the man smoking the cigarette. The font of the song titles are very tiny, and in white, this is something that doesn't appeal to me in particular, unless I was using a main image for the back of it.

This digpak is of rock/indie band 'The Kooks'. The image on the cover of the album is the band themselves. playing on their instruments. I like this photograph as it shows clearly to the audience what the genre is and what type of music they play. The font of their album name is small at the top of the album cover, this is because the photograph is already telling the audience what genre their album is, without them having to even read the title. The CD in the digipak is what stands out, as it has the colour theme of red, white and black throughout the album, which is something that I wanted to maintain throughout my album, except with colours such as pink and black, with the pink connoting the pop genre and the black connoting the rock genre. The back album of the cover again has a main photo of the band playing. This is something that I have noticed that rock/indie digipaks have in common. The song titles are in small font again, just like the arctic monkey's digpak. From looking at these, it has given me ideas when coming to my final digipak product, to use a real photo of Blossom on the back and front, with only small font on the back covers. It has also showed me that using a certain colour theme throughout the digipak works well as it links them all in together.