CD digipak pack

Kofoworola WilliamsMedia A2

What is a digipak

A Digipak style packaging normally the CD singles or special editions of CD albums. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style)paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside the generic "digipack" came to be used to describe all soft CD packaging.

Josh RecordJoshua Peter Record born on 20th November 1987 is a British singer/songwriter who has released one album, Pillars, and one EP.

His album “Pillars” doesn’t seem to have any kind of digipak but a music CD cover. However from what can be seen it is a simple photo of the artist with a range of different effects placed upon it such as:-

• Fading• A increase of transparency (white )• A kind of wave of green and yellow.• A reddish, purple colour used on his neck

Although this isn’t a bad CD cover, it isn’t the kind of cd cover that I would personally do, for example I don’t think I would make white a dominant colour on my cover.

Childish Gambino “Because the Internet” is the second album by hip hop artist Donald Glover, under the stage name Childish Gambino. The album was released on December 10, 2013 by Glassnote Records and Island Records. The recording process began in 2012 and ended in October 2013.

The cover is an animated .GIF of Glover staring at the viewer, which quickly fuzzes out after a few seconds (with strong brush-like strokes blurring his features to the point where he is unrecognizable) as if it had jumped at the viewer, in a process similar to zooming in. The .GIF format is a reference to the Internet, which made it popular and frequent. The physical version of the album functions with lenticular printing to mimic the animation effect.

GorillazGorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The band consists of four animated members: 2D (lead vocals, keyboard), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, keyboard, and backing vocals) and Russel Hobbs (drums and percussion). These members are completely fictional and are not personas of any "real life" musicians involved in the project.

The cover is drawn, which has no similarity to Josh Record’s album cover pillars besides the use of a side close up shot of each band member. What I like about this CD ad is the way it shows the characters in the band, for example it has them all with frowns on their faces showing the seriousness of the band. Which is interesting as the band’s songs aren’t all depressing songs.

MF Doom• Daniel Dumile born 9 January 1971 is

a British hip hop recording artist best known for his "super villain" stage persona and unique lyrics. Daniel Dumile has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably as Metal Face DOOM or MF DOOM.

• This album cover is another one which is drawn, it is a re design of the original cover which has the artist MF Doom. The cover shows a influence to sliver age comics which is unique especially since this genre of rap doesn’t really mention or appeal to the typical comic reader.

Music website research

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Josh recordJosh Record has a very interesting website, in the fact that it lacks any real features on the site, for example, the only thing that is accessible is just social networks such as :-

• Facebook • YouTube • Twitter • Sound cloud • Spotify

The site does have the unique font for his name however not for much else and since this is the only page whether he is using constant colours is not clear.

http://joshrecord.com/

Max frostMax Frost is a producer and songwriter of indie rock and pop music from Austin, Texas, signed to Atlantic Records. Max frost’s website from the looks of things has a very good site as it is loaded with tons of content from things like:-

• Tours• Music videos• Photos• Store

As well as all of his social networks where he can be found unlike Josh Record using also snapchat and Instagram.

Max Frost makes his website have a constant colour coding of black, white and grey. Having it remain that way as well as the unique font for his name at the homepage as well as for other parts of the site.

http://maxfrost.net/

Black Sabbath

Unlike the other artists I have looked at they are quite new and don’t have a lot of history, however Black Sabbath being well known for an number of years use this to their advantage even on websites. Using old pictures of when the band was younger to give a retro vibe or nostalgic feel to the site.

Also having social networks and other parts of the site which use animation to look interactive through things like pictures of the old times in the band, a scroll to the left and right of the site and interactive buttons.

Black Sabbath also use the typical colours associated with the band which is black and purple used throughout the site.

http://www.blacksabbath.com/welcome.html

Cee Lo GreenThomas DeCarlo Callaway born in 30 May 1974 better known as Cee Lo Green is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor.

Similar to all the other websites I have seen this one too has the use of a social network and has all of their icons on show, but unlike the other sites Cee lo’s shows updates similar to a blog about what has been up to and what is to come such as tours and performances he has done.

http://www.ceelogreen.com/news