Conventions of a DigiPak

The conventions of a digipak are (that I will have to include):

• Symbolic images that represent the tone/themes/genre of the music/albumn
• Normally a picture of the artist/band on the front cover or panels inside.
• The inside panels open up to create one large picture
• Title of the album displayed very clearly
• Continuous theme throughout the digipak, in terms of colours images and objects

The layout and what goes on the different panels are generally as follows:

• The Front Panel (Front cover) has a main image which represents the album or the artist. Normally, there is a picture of the artist/group. The name of the group and artist are also put onto the front panel.
• The inside panels of a digipak is where the CD would be found and there are generally four inner panels which can open out into a little booklet. These inside panels can consist of many thing such as:
                     - quotes from the artist
                     - Lyrics
                     - Symbolic objects images that convey the
                       theme of the album
                     - Images of the artist
  A main thing to remeber about the inside panels of a digipak is that there should be a continuos theme that is present throughout the album. for example, in Lady Gagas Fame Monster Digipak, the colors were all the same and the images all had the same theme to them.
• The back pannel is rather simple. It normally consists of the songs which are in the album. Again the same colours are continued and sometimes, there are more images on the back, however most back pannels are plain and simple.
•  The spine of a digipak is small and usually only says the name of the album/artist.
• The CD disk itself normally is plain with an image on it.

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