For my ancillary task I have to make a digipak for my song and a poster advertising the CD.
As the song I am using for my music video is a Indie rock song from the band Bombay bicycle club. I did some research on how Indie rock CD digipak are generally designed. I made a Pin board on Pintrest of some Indie rock CD case covers that caught my eye.
https://uk.pinterest.com/ella3456/cd-cases/ :
From most of the cases I looked, it seems that a lot of Indie rock digipaks and posters are very abstract and unique. A lot of them are illustrated, or if not, they seem to be aesthetically pleasing photos. They seem to be all very strange and alternative, which is fitting for the alternative sound of indie rock. They tend not to feature the band, which helps the digipak stand out. If it does feature the band it tends to be in a cartoon. Also the text on the digipaks tend to be in a really strange font, which may help it stand out and catch customers eyes. A perfect example of this is the actual cover of the song I chose to do;
https://uk.pinterest.com/ella3456/cd-cases/ :
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| Screen shot of a variety of digipack front covers |
From most of the cases I looked, it seems that a lot of Indie rock digipaks and posters are very abstract and unique. A lot of them are illustrated, or if not, they seem to be aesthetically pleasing photos. They seem to be all very strange and alternative, which is fitting for the alternative sound of indie rock. They tend not to feature the band, which helps the digipak stand out. If it does feature the band it tends to be in a cartoon. Also the text on the digipaks tend to be in a really strange font, which may help it stand out and catch customers eyes. A perfect example of this is the actual cover of the song I chose to do;
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| Front cover of Bombay Bicycle Clubs 'Carry Me' single |
They seem to have a theme;
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