Digipak Deconstruction

HARD FI - STARS OF CCTV

FRONT COVER

FRONT COVER

• The front cover consists of an image of a CCTV camera. This image connotes the title of the album which is ‘STARS OF CCTV’. This is also linked with the title of the last song on the album which has the same name. The cover is very basic and plain and uses the colours yellow and black this has been used to attract the customer’s attention in shops. Yellow and black could also be anchored to the CCTV theme of the album. This is a trait that the band Hard-Fi uses on all of their albums.

FRONT COVER

• The text in the top corner is in a basic font, I think that this is because they do not want to take any unnecessary attention away from the image in the middle of the cover. All of the text is in the same font, yet the band’s name is in bold, this is to show that it’s the most important thing on the cover. Using the two colours yellow and black also works well with the basic theme of this album cover.

INSIDE PANEL

INSIDE PANEL

• The inside panel for this album which is the back of the booklet is an image which the audience would assume is footage from a CCTV camera recording the group. I think that this image connotes to the title of the album, ‘STAR OF CCTV’. This is because the they are on CCTV and these could be the typical stars of today, this would be because the group are being typical youth of today, one of them is smoking while another is on his phone.

INSIDE PANEL

• The collection of men all have black censor bars across their eye, which we presume to be hiding their identity from the viewer. This is a typical thing to happen when a CCTV camera is recording. The black box in the top left hand corner also adds to the fact the image is from a CCTV recording. The box contains the camera name and the time. The font used here is the same as on the front cover, this helps to link the whole album together. The writing is also yellow which further more links the album together.

CD TRAY

CD TRAY

• On the CD there is also another image of a CCTV camera just like on the front cover and inside left panel. This gives anchorage to the album that if the audience was to see this image then they would think of this album. Just to the right of the image of the camera is the record company information; there are the company’s logos. This image is also very basic and could connote that the band let the music do the talking and don’t need to flood the audience with text and loads of images. The use of the two colours is used throughout all of the panels and helps to link that whole of the album together.

BACK PAGE

BACK PAGE

• The colour yellow is used on the back page as well as all throughout the album; this has helped really well in linking the whole album together. The font used in the text for the track list is this same font that is used the whole way throughout the album. This connotes this font to this album as well as linking the album together as a whole album. At the bottom of the cover there are the 3 logos two these are the record company’s logos, the other one is the bands logo.