Digipak cover research

Before we are able to start designing our digipak cover, we have to carry out come research into similar genre covers to get insperation and a concept of how we want our cover to look. Obviously having the collaboration of the old and new we wanted to design a comtempory styled cover which also had authenticity to it. A good starting point into the research i felt was to look at the original cover of the song 'Why Don't You Do Right' by Lil Green:

This image of Lil Green conveys a classic blues artist, demonstrated though her dress sence, which consists of animal fur (typical of the period). I think this look is too 'old fashioned' for what we are looking for as naturally it contains no elements of a modern day society. I believe if we used a cover this traditional that the younger members of our target audience wouldn't be so attracted to it as they wouldn't recognise it was modern at all.                        

  
                                                                   

The next logical step in this research process is to look at a more contempory styled cover, perhaps of a techno genre. So i have looked at the conver of the song that we are actually going to be using for our own music video, Gramophondzie 'Do Right':

This cover from Gramophonedzie captures the modern and new well, conveyed through the colour of the walls and objects behinde the obviously 40's styled black and white woman standing in front of it. However, as a group i think we want to have a more of a traditional 20's style look with a small touch of modern rather than this obvious look. This cover, unlike the Lil Green one, may for the early thirty part of our target audience not work, as it look very young and perhaps they would think its for the younger generation. 

So after looking at these two in detail i think that we have to find a contrast between them when creating our cover. Below i have added in more pictures of album covers from atrists in the 20's, 30's and 40's and some from more modern techno albums:

20's, 30's and 40's:

 20's

                                            

  30's

40's

Modern techno covers: