Ancillary Texts

Digipaks

What you would expect to see in a digipak?

• The name of the artist
• The name of the album
• A track listing
• The record label
• Pictures of the artist/band
• CD logo
• The price
• A website link
• Credit
• Recording information
• DVD logo
• Barcode
• Who sings the songs

Paolo Nutini's Album Art

Paolo Nutini clearly sticks to the same colours when creating a digipak. So therefore you would carry out using these colours as they are representative of him.

Coldplay's Album Art

I like the album art for cold play, I love the colours used as they stand out and are fun and make a interesting cover that is very attractive.  

Marina and the Diamonds

All the digipaks released by Marina and the Diamonds are very cohesive and feature her as an artist with patterned backgrounds and it features the same writing throughout them all. If I were to do one of her songs and create a digipak then it would be necessary that I stick to this theme.

Websites

• Band logo's at the top and they appear large
• Links to pages on the website for example home, about/bio, gigs, videos, photos/gallery, merchandise store, forum
• Main feature or video clip
• The home page would be predominately catered around a new single/album
• The use of still advertisement, videos and links
• The key is the home page which need to be simple and eye catching so dans are not swapped with information
• Easy to navigate
• Strong design that might be minimalistic

Paolo Nutini's Website

The artists website clearly shows the link between the artwork used and the album art of his most recent album Sunny Side Up. It shows easy links between pages on the side bar which are clearly visible. It also is coherent with the style of writing used when illustrating his name they use the same style font but play around with the use of colours.

Coldplay's Website

Coldplays website is representative of their new album. It features links to everything and it has been made user friendly. It has recent music videos as the main feature which you can see - this helps promote their new single.

Marina and the diamonds

Marina and the diamonds clearly is promoting her new album that is coming out in 2012. The colours are representative of her new song released 'radioactive' which features similar colours and her EP features the same backgrond. It also promotes her videos like every artists website should.

Magazine Adverts

• They get the customers attention
• The use of colour
• Make it easy for the customer to reach and order the product

Coldplay's magazine advert for Mylo Xyloto 

Coldplay's magazine advert is also coherent with the digipak and the website - it features the albums name, album title and dates. It's main purpose it to attract attention in which it does with the use of bright colours and interesting use of artwork.

Marina and the diamonds

Marina and the diamonds magazine advert features the artwork taken from her first album with the same writing always used.