Digipak research

These images helped us get an idea of what the generic codes and conventions are for the general 'indie band' digipack. Overall by looking at these digipacks i had realised that many indie bands do not use images of themselves on the front cover, this was the main convention we had decided as a group to follow. This reflects indie audiences who you could argue are more about 'the music' rather than the image of the band. However this could also represent the importance of getting the bands image 'perfect'.
We would use a very unique image of something to represent the quirky aspect of the band. This would also potentially strike a cord with the indie audience as they identify themselves through this quirkyness and through the individuality of the genre. In addition we are going to use some images of the band themselves so that we can establish an identity for them to the target audience. However through this research we had found out that the images are usually photoshopped with a slight hazy/dreamlike effect to highlight the fun indie side to the band. However as a contrast i had also looked at a few indie solo artists not only bands and in this case for example Ellie Golding's digipack used an image of the artist on the front cover of the product.

here are a few images of other digipaks from bands similar to our band: