Digipack Research

For our digipack we needed to research into the types of albums that bloc party already had and other artists of that genre. Below are some images of some of Bloc Party's album's; as you can see their albums and singles mainly consist of location shots. This was good for us as we had taken some really nice images when we went filming in Camden. In the picture below we have included our on take on an album cover to see how it would fit in.




Here is a larger image of what we created on photoshop. The colours were already vibrant in this location but we wanted them to be even more distinguished so we therefore increased the contrast on photoshop to make the colours stand out even more. This is an image that we feel would be apropriate for our cd cover. We placed the text in a similar way to Bloc Party to create a sense of realism for our audience. Additionally Bloc Party do vary the colour of their texts for example the top right hand picture features blue text whereas the rest feature white. This meant that we could experiment with colour to see what colour was emphasized the most and complimented the background image.




After our change of story line we could no longer use this image for our album cover because we did not use this scene in our final music video. Instead we decided to use an image of our mine character that can be seen in our actual music video however this still links in with Bloc Party's albums as a recent album intimacy uses images of people.

Bloc Party's Album

Our Front Cover Image

The Text

The type face for the album titles creates a coherent house style throughout the cd covers. This means that people link this type of text to the band which makes it more recognizable for their audiences. For us to make our CD look as realistic as possible we also need to use the same text style. This will involve using the standard straight capital text with the full stop at the end and placing the album title or single name directly underneath it.


Using DaFont we were able to look at similar text styles to try and find the one the matched Bloc Party's current text style to make our CD look more realistic to our audiences.

The final font we chose was Code Bold and Code light which we felt best represented Bloc Party's actual type face on their cover albums and posters.