Album/Single Covers (Digipak) - Research

Before making our Digipak, we thought it would be a good idea to look into existing album and single covers. We had to make sure we knew the difference between an artists album cover and single cover.

I thought i would start off with the Artist we are using for out music video and her Album/single covers.

We can see from this album cover that the lettering and font used is simple and clear.  The cover has a full image of the artist dressed up. She is on her own, outside. The fact that she is on her own and outside my relate to the title of the album which is "The MF Life" which could imply that she is lonely or heart broken. 

 This is the single cover of Melanie Fiona's - 4AM single. we can see that there is a significant difference in the way her single is set out to her album. In the is single cover the font and lettering is the same, simple and easy to ready. The image however is a lot more different than that of the album cover,. Here she is again on here own but instead of longshot being taken of her we have a close up of her. As a group this is what we will ahve to consider, the lettering, and the image as there is a different between the album and the single cover from melanie fiona.

This is the album cover of beyonces latest album "4". Beyonces album art is very different than the one of melanie fiona. In melanie fionas albuma rt she seems more relaxed where as with beyonce here she looks almost the opposite. Also in terms of dressing beyonce seems to show a lot more body than melanie fiona did which could be related to the type of music the both contain on there cds e.g Love on top by beyonce which is a fast paced song and very technical and 4am by melanie fiona which is a lot more slower and requires less effort. We can also see that the image is covering the album title which is okay as almost everyone is expected to know who beyonce is.

Here we have the single cover for beyonces single "Dance for you". If we compare this to melanie fiona, she had an longshot image for her album art and a close up for her single cover. I guess they use shots that favours the artist them self. Whereas here beyonce has a longshot and full body shot image for her single. The clothes shes wearing also relates to the title of the single "dance for you" as she looks to be wearing dancing clothes. Yet again the loettering and font of the single cover is kept simple and clear. 

Rihanna album art is very different from some of the album arts i studied. In this pic she is not wearing any clothes but is covered up by many words. The font and letting used in this album is unclear and quite hard to read. If you look carefully you'll find that the name of the album is located on the left side of the image under a black scribble.