Digipack: Thoughts for Inlays

In today's lesson, as a group we managed to put together an rough overall layout of the digipack inlay booklet - this included making it as a physical object to make it easier to visualise it as a completed component. We agreed that the inlay should be a booklet rather than a 'fold out' and that the centre page should include one larger photograph of the band together.

Following this work, I have come up with a complete plan of the digipack (as the one as a group was a draft so therefore it had empty pages that needed filling). This draft idea should cover all the neccessary content for the 7 pages of the inlay booklet. This is one idea for the content and layout of our inlay booket for our digipack:

I have centred it around the lyrics of the artist's songs (Grace has contacted the original artist to enquire as to whether we are able to use their lyrics and track names - I believe we should have about 10 or 11 as this is becoming a generic convention of all artists in the music industry, it is almost an audience expectation because it represents value for money). I believe the printing of lyrics in an inlay is becoming more and more prominent, possibly because it allows fans to be committed to a band and 'get closer' to them i.e. so they can start to build a following, the audience seek the band's stardom. It is an aspirational lifestyle. I have also incorparated the idea of a computerised image to indicate a continuous theme throughout the album.

I have also noted down the other typical content found in an inlay (besides photos of the band and lyrics to their songs) for instance: the band thankyous on their own and together (centre and right), the note about the publishing of the album and other notable contributions to the album e.g. mixed/recorded/lyrics/photography/artwork by (left) and band member roles (centre).

If we decide that the layout and design for the inlay is not appropriate, then hopefully we can use this as content for the back pages of the booklet.