EVALUATION - Compare and Contrast of Completed Digipak and Real Life Products

Key Image - I chose to compare my album to The Cribs album because both bands have three members. Therefore, it is interesting to see how my album cover relates to a real life band's album with three members. On both of the album covers all three members of the band are shown. This adds a realistic view to my product as it is following the codes and conventions of the alternative rock genre. Also, the style of both bands reflect the alternative rock genre. This is due to the band members dressing similarly in shirts and skinny jeans, as well as having long, messy hair with a fringe and having a beard.

In addition, on both of the album front covers, some of the key image is layered on top of the band name. It is not fully covering the text and so the text is fully visible for the audience to read. This is a technique used mainly on magazine front covers, where the magazine brand is so well known, the audience will still be able to recognise what the magazine is, even if only one of two letters are visible. Therefore, it could be interpreted that this technique has been adapted to these album front covers, suggesting that these bands are becoming more and more popular and can afford to style their album in this way.

Band Name - Across both album front covers, the band name is written in a recognisable font, that is used throughout the rest of the digipak as well as the other band products. On both of the album covers it is centred at the very top of the page. It is also the biggest font on the page, so it's the first thing that the audience's attention is drawn to.

Album Title - The title of the album is also written in a recognisable font. However, on The Cribs album, two different fonts are used to distinguish the difference between band name and album title.

Colour Scheme - The colour scheme used across both of the album front covers is simplistic with a minimal 2/3 colours used. This colour scheme is used throughout the digipak as well as other products, with little or no change. On my album front cover there are three main colours - white, black and grey and on The Cribs album front cover there are also three main colours - yellow, black and grey. This is a positive reflection of how I have followed the conventions of existing digipaks.