Digipak Analysis.

With their album Wall of Arms, The Maccabee's did something very rare with their digipak, they simply created a fold out poster, which was an enlarged image of the album cover. The reason behind why the band would have chsoen to do this will have been because, they know people do enjoy to get something extra, at no cost. This front cover and digipak, is 'Pop Art' esque image, something in which the band are renound for, and they also look as if they've had a plasticine tint to them.



Another reason why The Maccabee's may have chosen to have done this is because they know most people recieve their music online now, and maybe do not actually see the need to create a good, strong, defining digipak nowaday's.

Nonetheless, I amend The Maccabee's for trying to be slightly different and not creating a typical digipak. Although, this isn't something I would consider when creating a digipak, due to the fact I'd be accused of laziness, and having a narrow though process.

Digipak Analysis.

The Blur album, Modern Life is Rubbish, at the time really signified at a modern day Britain, coincidently, and really played a part in defining the Britpop era. The front cover of the album really set's the tone, it's simply an image of a train on duty, But as is usually the case with Blur, there's more meaning to it and that.

This captures what Britain was like in the early 90's, there wasn't much to shout about, especially when it came to British music, due to Grunge era being in full flow, and the opening page into the dikipak explores this even further, it consists of the four members sitting of the band sitting on the train, looking glum, continuing to reitterate the point.

As you begin to flick through the pages, you get a copy of the lyrics to all the songs in the album, along with key's telling you how to play all the songs, the lyircs takes us to the second last page of the digipak. I believe this page really bodes in well with the lyrics in my opinion, and this is because on the page is a personal message from the band stating "Friends, you know who you are, you know we're grateful", to me this implies Blur know who their fans are, and want to share their music with them, and the best way to do this is by letting them know how to learn the songs. To finish with, the back page of the digipak is just another image of the train going by.

 
From this album artwork as a whole, I've decided that I believe Blur could be telling a narrative through their artwork, they start off by telling us that Britain is in a poor situation, and that as a band they were trying change this, but in the mean time, Briatin was continuing to go through this poor direction, which in my opinion is very clever, and imaginative.

Digipak Analysis.

The Digipak for the Demon Day's album, as expected, shows many signs of majestic creativity throughout the Digipak. This essestially is what to come to expect from Damon Albarn, and James Hewlitt. The Album cover seems reasonably basic, it's simply a close up side shot of each member of the animated band, if four seperate white boxes.



Although, it's as you start to unveal the rest of the album when the superiority really begins to shine, the digipak consists of a single cover for every song on the album.



Above, is the cover for Last Living Souls, a track off the album, this is a very eye catching cover, because the band stand out from the replica image behind them. Which gives a very thoughtful meaning to the cover, implying they're the last living souls, and nobody else is around them.

I believe the biggest factor of the Demon Day's digipak, is what I could learn from it, and I've figured out that is the animated effect can work really well, obviously it would be near on impossible for me to do it to the standard of Albarn and Hewlitt, since they are very skilled, and have nothing but the best equipment. Though I do like the effect, and since it's quite rare to see it, I believe it can really help your album stand out from the crowd.

Album, Back Cover.

Digipak Mock Up

The Mirrors Image Poster, Mock Up.

Album Cover Mock Up.

Above is the Mock Up for my Album Cover, for The Mirrors Image debut album, The Underground Sound.

For this album cover I have taken inspiration from the physocological technique 'Rorschach', the method of this is where, you place an image in front of someone, and the image looks jumbled, and you have try and tell what you can see within the image, for instance on my front cover, you can see a man looking sidewards. Rorschach is known for playing with your mind when looking at an image, which is what I liked about the image, because it could imply that The Mirrors Image, mess with your mind, or there debut album does.

After I completed the album mock up I decided that I wasn't a fan of the font that I used, I believe it looks  slightly childish, as if it had been drawn by a small child, and s if it doesn't fit in with the mood of the album. This is somehting that I would like to change, when it comes to making my final piece.

Finally I quite the contrast that has happened between the back and the white, and this is a colour scheme that I believe could work when I come to do my final, because unlike the font, it fits the tone of the album, and also helps to make the album look unpredictable, because from looking at the cover, you don't know what to expect you'll be listening to.