Monday, 7 November 2011

Codes and Conventions of a Digipak & Advertisement

Digipak

The Digipak and advertising is very imortand for an artist/band and its all about selling their product to their target audience. A lot of  what they want to acheive is adding value, however they dont want to lose possible buyers by setting their price to high. The customers want a reasonable price for what they are purchacing. Therefore if their digipak is giving something special, unique and adding something extra people will be willing to pay more.

We went through a couple of digipak examples in class, however I decided to analise my own which I created using PhotoShop:



Overall digipak style:
  • Usually uses 2-3 colours, 4 colours maximum. This digipak has used 3 colours, white red and black which signify danger colours, which is re-enforced with the blood. These three colours are used throughout the entire digipak which gives it continuity
  • A digipak does not tend to use over 2 diffent style of fonts
  • Includes elements of graphic design
  • Must create some sort of visual link with advertisement

Advertisement

The advertisemnt must or is most likely to include:
  • release date of album
  • prominent display of artist name & album title
  • Usually has image of album
  • Repeats the same graphic style of digipak
  • may also include; tour dates, review quotes from magazines, record label logo, website

By doing this I have re considered our own digipak. I have taken this information in and its helped me to think about our digipak which we have to design and create.









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