Album Covers and Digi-Paks

Digipacks are a type of CD packaging made out of card stock or other heavy paper/cardboard material. Digipacks can flip open like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion. Usually, the portion of the digipack that hold the CD is made of plastic like a traditional jewel case CD - the plastic part is simply attached to the paper background.

What makes an Effective Digipack?

• Color schemes and pictures throughout the CD cover
• Pictures that also link with the band or either the genre

Digipacks have pros and cons:

• They look nice, and many bands and labels like to use them for aesthetic reasons. The three section digipack sleeves opens up more design options because there is more room. However, they're more expensive than traditional liner notes and jewel cases.

  
  

• Digipacks don't crack like jewel cases do, but they will rip and eventually the paper begins to peel apart and separate.

  
  

• The trays in digipacks break much more often then in jewel cases. There's not as much protection since the outer portion of made of paper, so the teeth that hold the CD in place crack and fall out easily.

  
  

• When the teeth of the tray does break in a digipack, the CD falls out of the bottom of the digipack, because unlike jewel cases, there is nothing to hold it in.

  
  

• Digipacks can be more environmentally friendly than jewel cases because they can be made of recycled paper - however, they aren't always in fact made in this way.

The reason why i have a picture of Wiz Khalifa here is to show that some digi-packs can look like a jewel cased CD but they flip out in a different way. Also this specific wiz khalifa album is made out of paper which is quite deceiving looking at the image. Another thing that is very clever about what Wiz Khalifa has done is that the Long Tattoo that is covering his arms are called 'Sleeves' his then links back to the description of the digi pack 'the three section digipack 'sleeves' opens up more design options because there is more room. This is why on 1 of the open up sleeves he has a picture of his hands showing the tattoo.

Lists of Props, Costumes, Make-up and equipment.

We have decided for our performer to look like a 'Grime Thug' but also have that mature attire so it breaks the stereotypical grime industry look :

A costume that he might appear to wear in the video is a black cardigan to imply that he is update with the fashion and to also give him that youthfull look to show that he is an up and coming artist.

The picture below is a medium close up shot of his upper body attire.This is the general look that he would be wearing and how he would be posistioned in a frame of the music video.

This Gucci belt is a sign of wealth and just for fashion to show to the audience that he is wealthy and even though he is a new artist he is not

These are a pair of ralph lauren shoes that the artist may consider wearing in the video. Ralph lauren is also another well known expensive make which shows wealth and also a youthful fashion sense portraying that he is young artist.

Comparing Blogs

In the blog that i have recently looked at there are quite good things that i have seen such as as;

WWW:

• They had lots of visual photos that standed out which was very eye catching
• In the rough edited video the main actor lip synced quite well which looked quite good and professional
• I liked the way they used various images and they also used video clips from youtube when they was talking about the initial ideas
• As they was doing the same theme as me i found that mine was not that far off looking like theres and we also had many similiarites.

Images of Paul Knight and Myself Working

Here are some shots of Myself and Paul knight working on our Research and Planning. You can also see snap shots of our story board in progress. The technology that you can see us using the Imac and Storyboard sheets.

In this shot you can see a couple of our complete drawings that we have recently done. We have not drawn them in order as in a grime video the shots are not continuity edited.

In this shot here is both myself and paul working on our storyboards.

Now in this shot you can myself on the imac working on my blogs in class. I find using the mac is quite easy and that i have come along way since AS media.

Roles

In my group their is only me and another member of the class (Paul Knight). As their is only 2 of us in the group there is allot of work we both have to regulate between each other. Even though their is only 2 of us, i feel that it is easier to get the work done as we don't have to keep in touch with 2 or 3 other individuals as that could lead to confusion of who is doing what piece of work.

For our production there is different roles we both have to pick from, the Roles are;

• Story Boarding
• Production Manager
• Casting
• Acting
• Costume and Wardrobe
• Film Editing

3rd CD COVER ANALYSIS

In this cd cover we can see that the artist is dressed in a hoodie the same as the artist in the preivous cd cover. The hoody plays a big part in the representation of grime as it is a typical clothing worn by individuals that are from the 'hood'. Also the spelling of the album name is 'Walk in DA park' the slang spelling shows for definate that it is a grime genre. The album name can also imply that he found making the album easy for e.g ( it was a easy as a walk in the park)
It can also suggest that he didnt put much effort into the albumb but it was still very successful and very good , this can mean that if he was to put effort into an album it could be awesome.
Also he logo in the bottom right hand corner appears to be a gun which is also another object linked with the streets and the grime genre.

2nd CD COVER ANALYSIS

On this albulm cover you see 2 grime artist standing with their umbrella over their heads. This is linked with the title of their albulm called Tsunami.
Although its small to see , their is a parental advisory logo situated bottom left of the albulm which is something common in all Grime Genre Albulms.
Although there is turrental rain coming down you can still still the estate blocks in the background which is another subject linked with grime.The artist are both standing together which inplies that they are a double act together and that most of their music is going to be together/ a split part.
The person on the left ( KREPT) is dressed in black glasses , a gucci scarf and a gucci hat. He is wear expensive clothing which can suggest that he/they are successful and wealth.
The person on the right (KONAN) is dressed in Ralph Lauren which links back to wealth and being successful as Gucci and Ralph are expensive name brands to accquire.
The Words ' Play Dirty ' can suggest that their album is almost like breaking the rules for e.g they go all out in their album/ on their tracks .