Digipak

For our ancillary task of the Digipak, we researched into what these were and how they were presented.

We found out that a Digipak is a patented style of compact disk or DVD packaging.

Here are a few examples that we found:

We noticed that a Digipak can have as many panels as you like. We quite like the 6 panel version, like the one above, however ours would obviously only hold one disk. Also the use of booklets within a digipak is not essential as not all of them involve it, therefore this is something that we may not include. We will however include the main conventions that we have discovered a Digipak includes, these are:

• Cover Image
• Back Cover Image
• Song Titles
• Bonus Feature
• Colour Scheme
• Other Images

These are therefore all things that our Digipak will include.

We found this net on the internet which tells the exact measurements needed to make the Digipak the correct size.

We will use this as our guide. After asking our technology department in school what the best way to make this would be they told us about a programme called 2D Design, this will allow us to input all the measurements into the computer and then add our Digipak to them. Then a special machine which the computer is linked up to creates and prints the project.

We have chosen to use the following image as our cover shot:

We used photoshop to create the pop art effect by using the layering tool. Then changed the colour scheme to just black and white. We wanted to keep it quite simple and effective. For the title and artist test we experimented with many different fonts and colours before choosing. The colour of our Digipak will be black with colours only in the text (which we shall use teal for) and in the pictures that we chose to include.