Digipack analysis research

This is A Day To Remember’s album Homesick. The dark colours purple, black and blue have been used to highlight the genre. This is generic of the screamo genre because the image is linked with dark tone of the music that the band creates. The white writing works well with the black background as it contrasts it, making it more noticeable. At the bottom of the cover  there’s a silhouette of what appears to be a man. This is interesting because it looks as if he’s reading the font and looks mysterious. 

Alexisonfire’s album stands out because the elements of black and white contrast each other. The image of the skull within the heart makes this interesting because it features two opposing themes. Hearts are normally associated with love and skulls are linked to death but it makes the theme as whole work well. Another thing that makes this album stand out is that it doesn’t display the name of it on it adding to its appeal to find out what it is.

This album is quite different to the previous albums, as it has brighter colours on it. The blue, red and sandy brown colours stand out on this album, as they are not normally associated with the screamo genre. On the cover the images that stand out are the Red Indian, the monster and the world with a face on it. This is different because it gives the album a more fun approach to the genre and shows that it doesn’t have to follow the normal conventions of it.  The font of the writing has a similar style as words written in old English. This also goes along with the image of the crown and shield and could represent medieval times. 

This Bring Me to the Horizon’s album ‘There is a hell, believe me I’ve see it. There is a heaven let’s keep it a secret.’ This cover comes across as striking, as the image is different. I like how one side shows dark elements and the other shows light elements. Although you can’t see the title of the cover the image relates to it very well. It shows that one side could represent hell and the other heaven.

Bullet for my valentines cover is goes well with the image and sound of the band. The dark colours go well together, especially the dark purple, red and black.  It gives the cover a gothic style to it. This is similar in some ways to ‘ A day to remember’s cover. I like the way the red border leaks into the white background. It gives it the effect that blood is trickling down. It also relates to the name of the band because the name signals death and image gives a sense of death, like the purple carnation flower.

For our digipack idea, we thought that we could use a still from our music video of the band for the front cover. To relate to the genre the font we are considering is a gothic style print as seen in many of the covers of the same genre. Our video features blood in it, so we decided to incorporate this with the colouring of the font and make it a blood red colour. To add to the genre, a black background will be used around the edges of the image of the band. This will make it stand out even more. On the back of our digipack, we came up with the idea of using a close up of the girls’ eyes, with tears streaming down. We think that this will be striking, as it's the only thing that will feature on the back. Our digipack will represent the band because the band have a deep -dark sound and the digipacks design reflects this.

Safina :)