Album Cover

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.

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

The booklet is located inside the front panel in a small pocket, on the front hold the same image that is on the front of the CD case and hold information and lyrics to the songs on the album as additional pictures.

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.

Elements of a Digipak:

Getting up to speed

We re shoot some old scene since on Monday 4th March 2013, we felt they need to be done again

Monday, 4 February 2013 … Shoot 3

What was being filming:

We had issues with filming the original hall scene, as we didn't not have enough extra or paper bag to fill up the crowds.  We then took advice from our Media teacher by using the English block.

Emmanuel was screaming and shouting, drawing attention to himself. This was done to show his frustration and anger towards everything happening to him.

Setting:

English department consisted of a balcony so we could see Emmanuel looking down on the other characters; it also allowed us to see the other characters look up.

Props:

 Camera

Paper bag head

Tripod

Characters:

As we used our media lesson to film it was not easy to film actors so myself and Jahquani took on roles as actress’s as we only needed 2 more people.

Emmanuel

Myself

Jahquani

Roles and Responsibilities:

Cameron - Behind the Camera

Myself - Actress

Jahquani - Actress

Problems:

There weren't any major problems but there was an issue with children walking into scenes when we were filming as it was break for the lower half of the school. All together it was a good day to film as we got the shots needed.

On Wednesday 27th February

 

This is our video talking about our Evaluation question and how we will be constructing it 

 

Update

On Thursday 7th  February 2013 we gave an update on what was happening.

Update

We have now finished filming. (this was later not the case as we re shoot some scenes to make then better)
Cameron is was in the process of putting together all the things we had already filmed, to which we began editing our music video. Cameron being more trained in editing than Jahquani and myself we then started on  the digipak.

On Wednesday 6^th February we did what we thought was our final shoot

What was being film:

Emmanuel committing suicide, and him in a park hallucinating

Setting:

Jubliee Park consisted of a number of hills. We used one to show Emmanuel jumping on a hill onto a concrete ground. We then shoot scenes of him in a playground with paper bag people but this was meant to show him hallucinating as we would of edited them out to create that feeling being lost and not knowing what’s real. Unfortunately these scenes did not make it into our film.

Props:

Camera

Tripod

Paper Bag heads

Swings & other things in the park.

Characters:

Due to us being on a trip near the location we decide it was a good opportunity to go and film the suicide scenes. But this came with problems as we did not have enough actors and the weather was not pleasant so then I and Jahquani took on the role as paper bag actress’s. Our role was to act as the people in the playground that disappeared and reappeared.  

Emmanuel

Jahquani

Myself

Roles and Responsibilities:

Cameron - behind the camera

Jahquani- Actress

Myself - Actress

Problems:

We had a problem with finding a hill to use in our filming, but we solved it by walking around the park and testing out the different hills. We also managed to finish filming before crowds of children came out from a nearby school.

On Thursday 10^th January ….. Getting up to speed

We made changes to our storyboard and then decided on what to do during the Christmas holidays.  The school theme was left the same as we have access to it and then started filming the following Tuesday on the 15^th January.

 The location was at school. As our deadline was February and as u can we have gone over it into extra time whilst this was happening Cameron was laying down the pieces to getting our front cover put together which is almost finished at this moment in time. Along with the digiak and poster which all just need the final touches.