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.

Codes and conventions of a music video

Codes and conventions of a music video

Codes equipment to make the music video for example cameras. But the actual codes in a music video are what the person/artist is feeling in the music video or situation that the song is about and how we see this shown with the camera shows this and the way its edited to capture emotion.
Conventions the way things are done within the video this also describes the genre of the music video
The conventions of a music video vary depending on genre of music. However, some general conventions are: The artist is shown performing, the lyrics of the song influence what is shown in the video, the pace of editing fits the pace of the music, and the codes of dress reflect the mood of the song.

Styles:

• Performance by band or singer
• Narrative having a story to it
• Mixture of both narrative & performance
• Cameo band/artist is in the story but don’t perform
• Animation digital, flash and stop frame

Editing and sound:

• Music videos often use jump cuts
• Footage is filmed to match lyrics of songs to look like their singing live
• Diagetic sounds
• Levels adjusted to vocal sounds to make the vocal more powerful.

Mise-en scene

• Props, music instruments and band merchandise
• Costumes certain outfits
• Locations

CAMERA:

CLOSE-UP

Is a dominant effect used in t.v shows partly because the size of the tv screen, which can create a sense of intimacy for the viewer.

EDITING:

The most common edit is the fast cut montage,rendering many images at one time so it make it impossible to grasp it at first viewing and therefore makes the viewer watch it again and again to see everything, This is called Multiple Viewing.
Some music videos use slow pace and gather transmission , it works for female singers like Dido.
Often Enhancing the editing for digital effects which play with the original images to offer different kinds of pleasure for the audience.