CONVENTIONS OF DIGIPAK FRONT COVERS

Conventional to have bolder text for the artist’s name, then a bold but smaller text for the album name.

Simplistic colour scheme, typical of the indie folk genre.

It is quite common for artists within the indie folk genre to use images on their front covers that are more aesthetically pleasing, rather than an image of themselves on the front.

Although you don’t get to see an image of Ben Howard on the front is almost taken care of, by the fact that his name is in big bold writing, which makes it the first thing you see when you look at the cover.

BEN HOWARD –EVERY KINGDOM

BOY AND BEAR –HARLEQUIN DREAM

Although this album cover is completely different to the one I previously analysed that was of the same genre, it still has it’s conventions that link it with other covers from the genre.

There is some kind of effect on top of the image, to give it a ‘vintage’ or ‘grainy’ look to it. This is used in a lot of music videos from artists that are part of this genre.

It’s similarities to the previous cover, is again, that it takes a more ‘artsy’ approach to the cover, rather than using an image of the singer/band on the front.

It is quite different to have such a small font to advertise the band and it’s album, however, due to it being in the centre of the top of the cover, it is still clear to see.

GABRIELLE APLIN –ENGLISH RAIN

Although this cover does feature the artist, it doesn’t explicitly show that it’s her. (If a person was just seeing the cover for the first time, they wouldn’t know it was her).

The text is conventional, like the Ben Howard cover, as it has the artist’s name in bolder writing than the name of the album, but both are there to see straight away.

There isn’t really a colour scheme, as the cover is in black and white, apart from the bright rainbow coloured umbrella that Gabrielle is holding.

The umbrella reinforces the name of the album, ‘English Rain’, as the main focus and most eye catching technique used is the focus on the brightly coloured umbrella.

LAUREN AQUILINA –FOOLS

Conventional text in the middle at the top of the album

Similar to Ben Howard’s cover, with them both being set in water. However, this image is a medium close up of the artist herself.

An effect has clearly been placed on this cover, that gives it a sort of ‘vintage’ feel to it.

The fact that you can see both under the water and on top of it, gives the cover a more ‘artsy’ feel to it, which again, is aesthetically pleasing like Ben Howard’s cover.