Codes and Convention if A Digi pack
Conventions of a DigiPak:
Conventions of a DigiPak:
A DigiPak is a patented style of CD or DVD packaging
DigiPaks are designed to fold into a square CD case
The front of DigiPaks tend to have a large eye-catching picture on them - Typically related to a song or image of artist
DigiPaks come in all different styles and designs. They vary in artwork
Collision Course (Jay Z, Linkin Park 2004): This album is a combination album of the rap artist Jay Z and heavy rock band Linkin Park and just by looking at their album you can expect a gritty in your face style as the images and text on the album has many different styles and are very distorted but in your face making it catch your eye also with the disk itself its blue with black on the side looking like its been spray painted showing and expressing the gritty nature of the album.
Discovery (Tinie Tempah 2010): This album Digipak is a lot different from the Jay Z and Linkin Park one as you can see its not rugged or street style, Tine Tempah's album Digipak as you can see is very futuristic and even has a image of the artist holding a city in his arms and even though the design may not be typical of the genre it still conforms to a lot of conventions of Rap style for example his upper body and head holding the city fills up an entire section of the Pak showing he is the main focus of it but him also holding the city could imply his songs also relate to achieving your dreams and changing the world or could even imply "The world is yours". Also this was a released 6 years after the Jay Z and Linkin Park album possibly showing how the style has rap has developed but also both albums being released by different artists from different countries as Tine Tempah is a British artists showing it could imply the different cultural styles the countries have.
After comparing both DigiPaks I can see despite the many differences in still contains many similarities, even though the styles are completely different they can still contain the themes of the genre but both express them few a unique style not typically seen but want to still keep to the roots of the genre.
DigiPaks are designed to fold into a square CD case
The front of DigiPaks tend to have a large eye-catching picture on them - Typically related to a song or image of artist
DigiPaks come in all different styles and designs. They vary in artwork
Collision Course (Jay Z, Linkin Park 2004): This album is a combination album of the rap artist Jay Z and heavy rock band Linkin Park and just by looking at their album you can expect a gritty in your face style as the images and text on the album has many different styles and are very distorted but in your face making it catch your eye also with the disk itself its blue with black on the side looking like its been spray painted showing and expressing the gritty nature of the album.
Discovery (Tinie Tempah 2010): This album Digipak is a lot different from the Jay Z and Linkin Park one as you can see its not rugged or street style, Tine Tempah's album Digipak as you can see is very futuristic and even has a image of the artist holding a city in his arms and even though the design may not be typical of the genre it still conforms to a lot of conventions of Rap style for example his upper body and head holding the city fills up an entire section of the Pak showing he is the main focus of it but him also holding the city could imply his songs also relate to achieving your dreams and changing the world or could even imply "The world is yours". Also this was a released 6 years after the Jay Z and Linkin Park album possibly showing how the style has rap has developed but also both albums being released by different artists from different countries as Tine Tempah is a British artists showing it could imply the different cultural styles the countries have.
Summary
After comparing both DigiPaks I can see despite the many differences in still contains many similarities, even though the styles are completely different they can still contain the themes of the genre but both express them few a unique style not typically seen but want to still keep to the roots of the genre.
We have decided to make our digipak still very urban which will contain many images or urban landscape which is very common for the genre but instead will be urban realism rather than very flashy and also even though are actor appears in multiple images like most rappers do he is still not the main focus as you can't see his face showing there's more to it where typical digipaks will have the artist as the main focus and edited in a way were everything points to them so this way we are still conforming to typical traits of the genre but also subverting it at the same time.
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