Research

Primary;

• Textual analysis of CD covers as well as whole digipack fold outs

• 2 Questionnaires (before and after) about which digipack nets our target audience prefers

• An interview with a stereotypical member of our target audience to get final comments on our drafts

Secondary;

• Reviews of CD covers/digipacks

• Articles on the development of the digipack/history of it

• Looking at forums for opinions or preferences about digipacks

• Instructions on how to make the net of a digipack cover?

Websites I have found

Covers;

http://www.redefinemag.com/music/reviews_cover.php

The website is created by a magazine who only specify in rock music therefore is slightly biased and wouldn't be as beneficial if we chose a very different genre. However it does have substantial and in depth reviews which are good examples.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/95/albumcoverreviews.htmA few reviews of some album covers, not many though I just thought they were particularly humorous

Digipak research;

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=history+of+digipaks&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=1&tbs=tl:1,tll:1990,tlh:1999&ei=_LZASpCjFIihjAfl34GdCQ&oi=timeline_histogram_nav&ct=timeline-histogram&cd=11

Shows a time line history of the introduction of Digipaks and uses a graph to clearly show the increase in use and popularity of Digipaks. It is useful as Digipaks are a new idea within media products.

NETS;

http://www.duplication.ca/printspecs/digipack.htm

Lots of different net designs for different sizes and designs of digipaks

http://www.hdc.uk.com/digipack_templates.shtml

A large list of different variations of layouts for digipaks.

After looking through all of the different net designs available we concluded that we werent going to complicate the process and to just use a classic digipak layout like this one;