Influences and researching for digipack covers

When researching digipak covers I found this album cover of Jason Mraz, I focussed on this, as this album cover is in the same genre as our song, and this album cover is used because Jason Mraz at the time was a new artist, so the cover has only him on the front to promote himself, and for the audience to know who he is. This album successfully promotes a new artist.

As we could not use the real artist for our album cover, I decided to use the main male protagonist as the artist for my digipak cover.

This album cover focusses solely on the artist, as the background lockers are blurred, and he is only in focus. This is because the artist wants you to look at him, rather than the background, to promote himself. He is also sitting at a school desk concentrating on something other than work, this may connote that he is bored of life, or the 'normal' life, and wants to do something different with his life, or that his music is different and new.

The font of the name of the album and artist, look hand written and in pencil, this fits in with the theme of going against conventions and using an alternative and unique style as it is his own hand writing.

The bright lighting at the end of the corridor behind his head makes his body and figure stand out, this contrast is strong with the dark body and bright lights. The camera angle is a simple mid shot but is effective as he is what stands out in the shot, and nothing else catches your attention first. This type of image would not necessarily be advertising to a mainstream audience but would possibly be in magazines such a NME or Q.