Digipak Analysis

Daft Punk

This is a digipak for Daft Punk album Human all after, their genre is french house music.  The first thing that i notice is the yellow theme that runs throughout the digipak. The typography that is used used is a constant theme that is used by Daft Punk, the typography is yellow which links to their genre. Bright colours can be associated with the genre of music, which then can allow people to gain the idea that the genre is related house music.  The typography is located in the middle of the front cover, this helps the digipak stand out and allows people to know the name of the group.The design of the digipak is linked with computers and technology, the fact that the title is human after all it links to the idea that technology is taking over the world but humans are still the rulers and in charge. The black background can be relate to the club environment which is dark, within the environment there tend to be bright illuminous lights which links with the bright colours used in the digipak. On the back of the digipak they have  put other name of songs that will feature on the album, they have used white typography so that the name are easily read and so they dont clash with the background. 

Jay Z and Linkin Park Digipack

MTV Ultimate Mash-ups: Jay Z, Linkin Park- Collision Course

Released:November 2004 - Sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Went to number 1 on the billboard 200.

Cover

• Rock Music doodles (Illustrated
• Graffiti (Messy Looking)
• Advertising - MTV
• Brown with a strong blue text
• Text is very loud, suggests it should be shouted
• A collaboration between Jay Z and Linkin Park

Inside

• Design follows to the inside with brown, blue and white with hints of orange
• Doodle style of drawing continues throughout
• Wallet styled design for the CD
• Design easy to fold up (Case)
• One plastic CD holder makes it more compact
• The collaboration of rock based imagery and the graffiti style communicates the genre of the artists and how they have combined

Album Covers

This is an iconic album cover for Blur, within the cover you are able to see the four artist within the band. The four artist are on the cover to show people what they look like, by doing this people then can associate their music with their faces. This album can link to the Iconography of the album cover article as it states that certain covers can inspire other people. This is a good example as this can be a reference to Queen Hot Space album.

This is an iconic cover, the name visual within the cover match the name of the single. The name of the song is called ‘5 years time’ covering the cover is a number 5 with different coloured shapes in it.  Within the lyric there is reference to sun shine; this can be seen through the background of the colour which is yellow. I believe that even though the cover is simple it is easily memorable

This album cover is a good example of how simple ideas can become effective. As you are able to see in this cover you are able to see all the members of Queen. From the image you are able to learn that from the four members the lead singer is the person at the bottom. You are able to tell this because he is doing more than the other members within the shot. The images of them are used so people are able to familiarise themselves of what all the members look like. They have named the album Queen II, the visual link in with the title which is why they have images of themselves.

Brief

Brief Overview

DJ BooSH is in need of a Digipak for his new album: One More Time. About Artist : DJ BooSH is a 25 year old modern Dance/house music DJ from Milton Keynes. He performs live at various local clubs, playing his music and mix tapes.


Artist Name

DJ BooSH

Target Audience

The CD will be played at the clubs that DJ BooSH will perform at , this is to intruge the clubbers and make them want to buy the CD. The target audience is 18-25, this is because we want to mainly aim the music at people that go clubbing. DJ BooSH will try to secure jobs at various clubs such as Ministry of sound, Ink and various clubs over the world.

Requirements

I need the following: Digipak: The main theme that I want included will be the theme of unknown, I dont want the artist identity to be revealed. For example, I want the four dancers to appear in the cover but I dont want there faces to be seen so they can be covered. Cover should include the Artists name - DJ BooSH- name of the single - One More Time. The name on the cover will be the artists logo, the logo will be blue. The design should have bright colours, perhaps strobe light effect used, this is to promote the genre of music(Dance/House).

Dance Rehearsals

This video shows the rehearsals that our group filmed in practice for our music video. As a group we needed to practice te dance routines that we are going to showcase in BooSH's music video. We firstly discussed the parts of the dances that we were going to use, the first dance moves that we learnt were from macarena. We first had discussion about the way that the dance goes, we first done the practice to the original song. This was helpful because we could then see how the dance move synchronised with the beat, with this we when changed the song to 'ONE MORE TIME' and then together we arranged how to do the dance moves to the beat. Once we had completed it and everyone was happy with it we moved on to another song which was cha cha slide.

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