Digipack examples

This digipack is a cd cover of 'A Day To Remember' who are an american rock band, the group take pride in their heavy angry music. The cd cover portrays the nature of the music, with it's dark images and shadowed figure. Many bands of the same genre typically use images such as these and the same conventions can be seen throughout other digipacks. Many of the bands of the same genre use the same sort of imagery, this kind of imagery automatically conveys the genre of music on appearance, as one does not have to be familiar with the genre to make the connection between imagery and genre. Many bands of the genre also use big bold lettering as the font for their band name, this connotes the desire to make a statement, so that the band name is large and bold so that people automatically look at the name.

Another album cover that uses the same sort of lettering is the Alexisonfire cover for 'watch out' which can be seen using the same sort of bold font. This album is very retro and looks as though the style of imagery derived from 1950's cult comic books. The colours are also resemble one another, the bold bright colours, noticably the block green and fair amounts of purple. Also the skeleton imagery is noticed within both. The genre of the music is very fitting for the cd cover as it is also a heavy rock genre, and the skeletons and ghosts/dark imagery connotes this.

This digipack is an example from Parkway Drive (a metal core band). We see the similarity of the bold white band text, with slightly distorted writing. We can see this as a convention through many of the similar genre bands. I am going to incorporate this within my digipack cover. Although i plan to use black text rather than white. The album cover itself contains pretty dark imagery, of what we perceive to be either someone dying or someone recently deceased, This complies with the conventions of "dark imagery" throughout similar digipaks