Analysis of Digipaks

This digipak is for 'Myth'. The genre of this artist is genre.
The front cover of this digipak is based around the picture. Usually the name of the artist is the most dominant aspect of the cover but in this case the picture draws the attention first. The artist is wearing a white mask this could represent the equality between people. This could also represent the genre of the music.

When you first glance at the name of the artist it isn't that clear to the audiences eye until you look closely and you can tell that it says 'myth'. This is why it isn't the most dominant aspect of the front cover, this means that the fans of the artist must recognise him from the picture not as much the title.

The way that the picture has been taken for the inside centre represents the genre of the music by the position that it has been taken in. The writing on the inside is telling you about the songs, who they are produces by etc. This gives the customers some extra information on the songs instead of just the song names which will be placed on the back cover but can't be seen in this particular picture. The use of the colour yellow is used for the song names which makes them stand out from the writing underneath. The colour yellow is seen as a friendly/peaceful colour, this also represents the genre as soul music is calm and peaceful.

The two side covers have used the same pictures one which is behind the CD and one which is just representing the artist himself. The way that they have used the same picture makes the digipak more synchronised. Behind were the CD will go it has all of the information which needs to be included on the digipak, such as the logo showing that it includes a DVD and other logos including, copyright and the record company.


This is the digipak for the 'volume one radio sampler' of acoustic music featuring all different artists.

Even though the manufacturer name 'oasis' is the most dominant aspect of the Digipak itself the name isn't the main focus of the product. Oasis is still made to stand out by the way that it is a bold white font on a black background. White and black stand out together as a pair as white is a light contrast against black. The name of the CD and what is involves doesn't stand out as much as the manufacturer which means the producer of the digipak must expect the audience to relate more to the manufacturer than the type of music it is displaying.

The way in which the background is done is iconic in the way that it is exactly what it is representing. As the digipak is for the 'Acoustic' album the guitar is then representing this. The colours used within the picture enable the image to stand out as around the guitar the colours are bright then the colours of the guitar and the floor are similar which allows the guitar to stand out as the dominant aspect against the wall as the background. The shadow of the guitar on the floor helps the guitar to also stand out as the dark contrast against the white background. The narrative of the front of the CD is set in a simple format which is effective because it helps to catch the audiences eye on the information which is important.

The spine of the digipak is kept simple, which is the best way to do it so if the audience are looking through quickly at a set of CDs they would easily be able to recognise what album they are looking for. All that is written on the on the spine is the album name, the band name of and which volume of album the CD is. The colours of the spine fade well together with the back and front of the digipak this is effective because it looks like it all fits together properly instead.

The back of the digipak also has the use of a guitar in the background this reflects the same idea as the front cover and the fact that they have used it twice will bring it to the audiences attention that it is an acoustic album. The colours are all within the same area of prospective, this almost stereotypes the bands for the type of music they play. The colour yellow is seen as a friendly colour and it is used to create a softer effect to the cover and allows the artists name stand out.




This is the digipak for 'Anit social burnouts'.

The most dominant aspect of the front of the cover is the text 'Anti social behaviour', as it is in white text on a black background it makes it stand out more to the customers in the shop. If you look closely at the text it has a had shadow around it, this is representing the effect of 'Burn out' as when you think of it you think of fire. The colour red is a strong colour and it brings importance to certain situations, this could show that it is showing that the name is the most important part of what people need to know.

The image on the front cover is centered which straight away draws attention to it. As the person in the image is wearing all black clothes and has black hair it enables the face, hands and fire to stand out, this is important because it represents the name of the band, the fire draws attention to the image. The fire is almost the logo of the band as it is used on every side of the digipak and even the spine. As the digipak's main colour is black the use of the bright colours of the fire against it really help it to stand out and the audience will begin to recognise fire with the band as it also fits in with the name of them.

The back cover of album is kept simple and this is normally better than it having to much information on it. The fact that the cover is kept simple makes it easy for the customers and when the customers are looking at albums they want it to be simple not hard to read and hard to find the information they want to know, because when they look at it all they really want to know is the songs which are on it. The back again has a black background with white font which is clearly what the band want all of the cover to be and what colours they want to represent them. The fire symbol is used as the only image on the back cover so if the customers are familiar with the band and only see the back before reading the text they will realise which band it is.

On this image you can see the inside of the digipak, the inside in this case has more on it than the front in case of images. The images on the centre there is a cartoon picture of someone playing a guitar, this shows what types of instruments are used in the performances of the band. The image of the fire comes over from the images behind the CD so on ever cover there is fire on there in some way. Still in the use of the cartoon artist the colours black, white and red are used.