Front cover final

Here the finished front cover of our digipak. This image was taken against a plain white wall as we wanted it to isolate our artist just in case we decided to create an imaginer background. In the end we decided we  didn't want any unnecessary objects or designs in the front cover. This is because we want the focus to be on our artist Iceburg keeping it simple was the best way of doing so. This is because he as a brand new artist and we needed him to be instantly recognizable for his fans and genre. The changes we have made since our last edit are that we have moved the 'Parental Adivsory' logo to the left and we have also taken it in slightly so that it isn't touching the corner of the cover. Again, from our digipak reseach, we found that the Parental Advisory logo is always slightly brought in and is never touching the edges of the cover. Our feedback also told us that the right side of the cover was 'too plain' and it would be better if we weren't stealing focus from Iceburg's with the Parental Advisory sign. Our artist name and album name are clear and bold with the font we brought in from the previous design. We used the blueish colour to represent the 'icy' theme he brings to the table. We put the artist name beside the artists face, while the album name was much lower down towards his body. This was because our feedback said that this works well because if the artist and album name were closer together the cover would look more bland and that this way we fill in the gaps better. Overall we as a group are happy with our front cover as we believe it looks professional yet simple as we haven't done anything fancy because Iceburg is a debut artist and still needs to establish himself on the scene.

back cover: final

This is the finished back cover for our digipak. We used a shot from the recording session of Iceburg hard at firing in the booth for our back cover as it looked like a nice 'real' shot as opposed to all the purposeful poses in the other pictures. We decided to use the black paper on the wall as a background for the track list as conviently in the background, so we capitalised on the opportunity. This worked out well as there was nowhere else we could have written the tracklist without using a different shot for our back cover. In the bottom right is the barcode. We believe this placement and size is accurate based on other albums and digipaks we researched. We put in the Atlantic Records logo next to this as we noticed label's logos often appear on the back cover of albums and digipacks. The website remained at the bottom in a font which fits in with the other white text and logos. This is followed by a copyright symbol which is a legal requirement which we failed to remember on the original drafts. Finally, we have inserted the Dolby Digital logo as we noticed that this appeared on the back cover of many CDs , so to make our product have the perfect verisimilitude we used all the necessary ingredients. 

final cut finished video

edited digipack panels

isbn

From the initial presentation of the digipack outside panel some alterations have been made. The panel of the front cover has been moved from left to right as we didn't realise that we had misunderstood the template and had the panels in the wrong order. the front cover also now has the parental advisory sign on the right rather than on the left because we noticed from other products that it appears on the right more often. The back cover was also edited as certain compulsory elements had not been  taken into account. For example we did not include the 'Dolby Digital' label has now been included as on the initial copy it was missed out. We also chose to include the record label's symbol (Atlantic records) because on similar products both the record label and symbol were included. A spine has also been introduced as it was completely missed off the first draft. The spine simply consists of the artist's name and the album along with the record label and isbn number as it is a legal requirement to include the isbn.

'its Rizz'

At the start of the song which we have created a video for the first words are its 'Rizz' and our tracklisting, features the title 'It's Rizz!' while our artist is signed under the title Iceburg, This is simply the name we have chosen to present. Many rappers have alternative names, for example UK rapper Wiley also goes by the name 'Esky boi', and Eminem of course is also known as 'Slim Shady', we decided that we would use the name Iceburg to promote our artists instead of his alternative 'Rizz'