Digipak

For our first ancillary task, the Digipak, we researched into what these were and how they were presented.

We found out that a Digipak is a patented style of compact disk or DVD packaging.

We saw that a Digipak can have as many different panels as you want it to have. We discussed it and said that we quite liked the 6 panel version. Also the use of booklets within a digipak is not essential as not all of them involve it, therefore this is something that we have decided not to include. We will however include the main conventions that we have discovered a Digipak includes, these are:

• Cover Image
• Back Cover Image
• Song Titles
• Bonus Feature
• Colour Scheme
• Other Images

We found this net on the internet which tells the exact measurements needed to make the Digipak the correct size.

We will use this as a guide for ours. After asking a teacher in the technology department in school what the best way to make this would be they told us about a programme called 2D Design, this will allow us to input all the measurements into the computer and then add our Digipak to them. Then a special machine which the computer is linked up to creates and prints the project.

We have chosen to use the following image as our cover shot:

We used photoshop to create the pop art effect by using the layering tool. We changed the colour scheme to just black and white. We wanted to keep it quite simple and effective and so it would go with our website. For the title and artist test we used a number different fonts and colours before deciding the colour.