DIGIPAK PLAN

There will be four pages for the digipak, the front, the back, the lyrics page and the back of the CD. There will be a theme that will hold for all the pages, which is the top and bottom border, we decided to do this because it makes it look more professional and look solitary. The basic colour theme is black, white and red but there may also be other colours included; we chose this theme because it gives quite a dark and ‘gangster’ feel, rather than an amusing and happy look. The font is not yet as I will experiment with different fonts to get the right one to suit the cover and suit the genre, the sketch is just a random font.

The front cover will have a high class, expensive car with the rappers standing in front of it and the other member of the group at the back, this is because the rappers are the main people, so we can show that they are the most important as clearly as possible. We chose to include a high class car because it portrays that we have money and this is a big thing in the hip-hop genre so we will be following the conventions. The clothing the people will be wearing is t-shirt and baggy jeans because of the stereotype clothing for the hip-hop genre. The characters’ postures will be relaxed, as the ‘we don’t care look’ much like the album covers I analysed. The front cover will also include the name of the song, the name of the group, the logo (which is already made by me, CMB the initials of the group) and a label saying ‘PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT LYRICS’ because this is included onto every hip-hop album cover so including this would be following the conventions.

The back will be the back of the car and people, so it looks like the audience is looking from the back, this has not got anything to do with the genre, but we just thought that it would look very interesting if we did this.

The lyrics page will be include the main theme of the top and bottom border, with the lyrics in two columns, the colour of the writing will be white because it will stand out in front of the black and red background. We chose to put lyrics in the digipak because it adds a bit of excitement as it lets the audience to sing-a-long. The cover behind the CD will be just the top and bottom border as the CD will be covering so adding a lot of detail would be pointless.

I will experiment with many effects while I am producing the digipak so I can come up with the best looking digipak.