Existing Katy Perry CD/Didgipak Covers (J.P)

After researching a little more into what a didgipak is, I decided to try and find whether Katy Perry has any didgipak's for any of her albums, or whether she just uses ordinary CD cases. After doing some research, I found that Katy did release a didgipak for her album 'Teenage Dreams'

The digipak for 'Teenage Dreams' has been created to be very colourful and eye catching. The front cover of the album is a long shot image of Katy Perry lying naked on a pink cloud that looks like candy floss. The image reflects the name of 'Teenage Dreams' as the cover is very dream like. Katy Perry's name and the album title is then written in candy like writing, which matches the candy floss cloud.

Inside of the cover is then two medium shot images of Katy Perry dressed as what I would call a candy queen, with a crown made of sweets. The actual CD is also decorated with red and white candy swirls, creating more of a dream like candy world and linking with the calligraphy on the album cover.

Her most recent album, which includes the single 'Roar', only has a standard CD cover, but after researching into it, I have found some images that were taken while doing the album cover shoot. This shows that a lot of photographs are taken during the cover shoot which are then all edited, then the most favored are chosen to leave several final images, the main final image then has to be chosen for the album cover. 

Existing Digipaks (J.P)

After finding out that we had to create a digipak for our artists album, I decided to research into already existing digipaks that have been released by popular artists with a similar genre to Katy Perry so that we can get inspiration and ideas for our digipak. 

                                        

The first artist that I have found who has used a digipak to release her album, is the very well known artist, Rihanna. She used the digipak to release her album 'Loud', creating a very bright and eye catching album which is packed with images of Rihanna and information about her songs, along with lyrics so her fans can sing along. 

The cover contains a extreme close up or Rihanna's face while she is looking down, so you can't see her eyes, only her eyelids. She also has bright, eye catching hair which is then matched with the same colour lipstick. Her face is then framed with a silver outline which goes around the outside of the digipak cover, this is also9matched with the same colour writing for the album title and artist's name. Showing a theme of matching colours, which helps it to stand out on the shelves.

The inside of the digipak has one long image set across three of the inside panels, the image is of Rihanna lying in a bed of roses, roses that match the colour of her hair and lipstick. This medium shot of Rihanna lying down, also gives us a little sight of what she is wearing, a dress that could easily be looked at as a wedding dress. Creating a lonely bride theme with the dress and the flowers.

The actual CD that is inside of the digipak is also related to all of the images as it has a picture of a rose on it. Although I noticed that the rose isn't red like all of the others, but a pale pink to match Rihanna's dress.

This is a digipak for Eminem's latest album, this is the most recent digipak of all three that I have analysed, as it was only released at the end of 2013.

The front cover of this album is a photograph of the house that Eminem grew up in as a child, it also has a black frame around the image, which doubles up as one of the panels for the digipak. The dark colours of the front cover of the album reflect the dark moods and thoughts of some of the rapper's songs and lyrics, based mainly on his childhood. 

The front cover also includes a 'parental advisory' sticker, due to explicit content. 

Digipak (J.P)

A didgipak is a style of CD or DVD cover which usually consists of a book-style layout which holds a CD like the stereotypical CD case, but it also holds information and booklets about the CD/DVD, used most commonly for limited edition CD's.