Amy Jones A2 Media: Features of a Digipak- Different Styles

CD Number One- Linkin Park- Minutes To Midnight

This is Linkin Parks 4th Album Minutes to Midnight and is the cardboard styled casing, which opens like a regular CD case, but then opens again additionally on the right panel to expose the CD inside the digipak. There is also a little pocket (which also folds outwards) on the inside of the front cover on the left that holds the Digipak's booklet, and tour information. When the Digipak is folded out to it maximum potential and the CD removed from its casing, there is a band photo that stretches across the whole of the Digipak.

Front Cover

This is the front cover of Linkin Park's Digipak Minutes to midnight. The house style of this is relatively simple, it appears to be black and white but on a closer look, it is more of a sepia tone in the ground, shadows and the waves in the water. This creates the illusion that it is darker than what it actually is, the viewer notices this in time.

inside

When you open the cover it reveals to panels one has a photo of two of the band members on the left and on the right shows a collage of the band when they were recording the album. These panels keep the house style and it is kept fluently throughout the whole of the Digipak.

Right side inside cover. collage of all band recording photos

cover flaps over CD

CD revealed

When CD is removed a large panoramic picture of the band is revealed

Inside pocket on the inside cover holds tour program and CD booklet

I personally like this CD design, this is because, not only does it keep the house style in the image, but also because it incorporates the bands initials in addition to covering the edges of the CD with the track list being written along inside the lines, again keeping the house style. I like this idea very much.

Back cover

Back cover of the digipak, again shows the band in the same location, with the rack list above them located in the sky, between the clouds.

booklet

The booklet is located inside the front panel in a small pocket, on the front hold the same image that is on the front of the CD case and hold information and lyrics to the songs on the album as additional pictures.

inside the booklet- information

lyrics

band photos

on the back of the booklet

CD Number Two- Ones to Watch

This album is a plain cardboard CD case which only has a front and back cover and possesses a pocket in which the CD is held. A simple and effective packaging method however, I think this would be unsuitable for my digipak, because it does not hold any pictures of any of the artists, the only information that it shows is who is on the CD. I do like the house style of this Digipak however, as it is themed around 3D colours in glasses which consists mainly of blue and red. The effects used against the fonts also give off a 3D effect to the audience.

front cover

back cover

pocket showing CD

CD cover

pocket with CD

CD Number Three- Fleetwood Mac

This is a tribute CD to Fleetwood Mac which hold all of their greatest hits and are most recognised to the audiences. The house style of this Digipak is one that suggests a quiet and delicateness about it. There are soft palette colours throughout the Digipak, and unlike the other CD's I have analysed; this is the only one that has a plastic casing. The font displaying the Digipak's title of the band is a common font as the band used this font regularly to display their band name. The picture showing a hand holding an orb which contains a previous band photo suggests an idea of memory, which in a Digipak is made for that purpose is an effective way to promote the CD. I like this idea, as it holds its own booklet, has pictures of the band throughout to promote themselves. I find this effective and will consider this in my own digipak.