In order for us to design our Digipack, we must analyse a number of already existing ones to ensure that we follow the conventions expected of a music video of this genre. To do this, we have started by choosing a Fall Out Boy album.
Immediately, as you first look at this, you notice that the mis-en-scene is in such as way that the colour of the font is a light blue colour whilst the image of the band itself is a green / turquoise colour. This is slightly unconventional as this isn't a pallet which you would associate with an album cover. However, due to the image being a master shot of the band sitting on a sofa, the colour scheme gives the image an almost black and white effect which works really well and reflects their moods.
The composition of the video is also very important as it essentially makes the cover appear the way it does, using the rule of thirds and a low angle well to put whoever looks at it on their physical level as it is shot at the head height of the band members.
The back of the album appears to be fairly conventional, but appears to be fairly basic in terms of design. The tracks are listed in a similar light blue to the front of the album and are in a fairly standard font which seems a little too dull for what we are going to try to achieve.
The images on the back of the album are pretty bog-standard close-ups of the band members. These appear to have been an after-thought and they don't really add a great deal to the overall appearance of it. There's also a URL for the band's website, a barcode, credit for the producer and the label name. This really doesn't appear anything out of the ordinary and so apart from the front cover, in general, I don't think that this is one of the better Digipaks which we have seen and that our other analyses will have more to offer in terms of design and originality.
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