This would be the side of the front cover:
Digipaks are a patented type of CD packaging which is made out card/paperboard. Usually, digipaks can open up like a book or they could have a more unique design, such as a three-part digipak in which one portion of the packaging opens to the right and other to the left. The part of the digipak which is made to hold the CD(s) is made of plastic, which is attached to the paper background. Digipaks are often used for special edition versions of CDs and are typically filled with designs and graphics
Codes and conventions of a digipak:
· Album art
· Track listing
· Card/paperboard packaging
· Lyric booklet
· Credits
· Copyright logo
· Artistic cover
· Pictures of band members
· Quotes from reviewers
· DVD(s) depending on the type of digipak.
· Barcode
· Web addresses
· Folding packaging
· Date of release
· List of band members' roles
· Square based packaging
Front:
The name of the artist, the name of the album and song list will all be in the same front style and colour.
Spines of the cover:
It usually has the artist and the name of the album. It always has the disk insides format like the CD logo and also would have a serial code, which would define it.
The album uses a cardboard styled casing, which opens like a regular CD case, but then opens again additionally on the right panel to expose the CD inside the digipak. There is also a little pocket (which also folds outwards) on the inside of the front cover on the left that holds the Digipak's booklet, and tour information. When the Digipak is folded out to it maximum potential and the CD removed from its casing, there is a band photo that stretches across the whole of the Digipak.
The album uses a cardboard styled casing, which opens like a regular CD case, but then opens again additionally on the right panel to expose the CD inside the digipak. There is also a little pocket (which also folds outwards) on the inside of the front cover on the left that holds the Digipak's booklet, and tour information. When the Digipak is folded out to it maximum potential and the CD removed from its casing, there is a band photo that stretches across the whole of the Digipak.
This is the front cover which uses an illusion effect of darkness when you can see clear light. This is done by the grey water at the bottom of the cover that goes off into a foggy type mist. The 6 silhouette also add to creating a form of edgy darkness to the cover as they are black. This creates a contrast with the white background that takes up most of the cover.
Opening the cover it exposes two panels one has a photo of two of the band members on the left and on the right shows a collage of the band when they were recording the album and the band logo in the middle. These panels keep the house style and it is kept consistent throughout the whole of the Digipak.
This is the collage on the right panel with the logo within the middle
CD case open fully
It has three compartments
The first compartment holds the booklet within its pocket. Its also has the image of 1 that makes up of 3.
The second compartment holds the CD disk with the bands logo on the cover, which usually is the one that holds all the music from the album. This compartment has a plastic disk holder instead of the slit and also the strongest and heaviest part of the digipak. The back has the 2nd picture of to 3 that make up 1.
The third compartment has the 3rd picture that completes the image .
Cover flaps over the CD
CD is removed showing a large close up shot of the band
Inside the inside cover is a front pocket that has a of tour programme and CD booklet
CD
It was a very creative way to incorporate the bands logo onto the CD with the song list written within the logo at the edge. Whilst still keeping the theme of style.
Back of the cover:
The back cover of the digipak, again shows the band in the same location, with the rack list above them located in the sky, between the clouds. Has a barcode which most albums and any product would have.
Has parental explicit contents logo on it as like a age restriction thing has all the makers and publications at the bottom with billing in small print a back ground for all this information to go on and the main code and convention the names, the numbers of the songs and any special features.
The back cover of the digipak, again shows the band in the same location, with the rack list above them located in the sky, between the clouds. Has a barcode which most albums and any product would have.
Has parental explicit contents logo on it as like a age restriction thing has all the makers and publications at the bottom with billing in small print a back ground for all this information to go on and the main code and convention the names, the numbers of the songs and any special features.
Elements of a Digipak:
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