Tommy Coulter-Liston's A2 Media Studies Coursework

Sunday 17 October 2010

Codes and conventions of a digipak

Codes and conventions of the outside:



Front:
The name of the artist, the name of the album. It will have some sort of lustration or a picture of the Artist, But this goes against the codes and conventions as Jay-z and linking park don’t have there artist photo on the there album cover. The have a rather fascinating black and whit illustration with their names in big bold font and their album name underneath.

Spines of the cover:
It will have the artist and the name of the album. It always has the disk insides format like the DVD logo and also would have a serial code, which would define it.

Back of the cover:
Has a barcode which most albums and any product has.
Has parental explicit contents logo on it as like a age restriction thing has all the makers and publications at the bottom with billing in small print a back ground for all this information to go on and the main code and convention the names, the numbers of the songs and any special features.

Inside flap:
Continuous background that goes through the digipack helping it fit in and




Codes and conventions of the Inside:



It has three compartments


The first compartment holds the booklet with a slit at the top to put the booklet in. It has the continuous background printed on it.

The second compartment has a slit in it; this holds the cd disk, which usually is the one that holds all the music from the album. Still with the print of the background effect.

The third compartment holds the second disk this is usually the DVD disk that holds all the special features and end extras. This compartment has a plastic disk holder instead of the slit and also the strongest and heaviest part of the digipak. And has the continuous background print on it.

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