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 This image shown is the front cover of the CD, this is the most important

part of the digipack as it is the first side the consumer sets eyes upon.

This therefore needs to be eye-catching and represents the band and the

genre of the music to entice the audience to purchase the product. This

particular band ‘The Red Hot chili Peppers’ have created a space like

theme which could present the album to be ‘Out of this world’ which

would represent it’s music genre ‘Indie Rock’, being in outer space and

making it fairly individual to the norm of CD covers. The album name is as

a 3D title at the slant giving the viewer an image that it is coming out of 

the cover. This title has an intertexual reference and could be seen to

represent the well-known film Star Wars, as the font is similar and the

out of space theme would present the film also.

This dark and eerie background is shown on the far left when opening the

CD pack. It sticks to the same colour themes as the front cover, using both

blues and reds throughout this image. The blue background makes the

setting feel cold and gloomy, whereas the red colours bordering gives the

image an indication that warmth is lingering in the air. Again this unusual

image can meet the genre conventions with the music genre of indie due

to the strange images which could indicate a story behind the band

themselves. The natural shot of the city view has been colour edited to

add an extra story behind the image giving the consumer a wide

imagination to create a story of what they believe is occurring. This part of 

the digipack could be seen as a voyeurism, looking into the setting could be

an indication of one of the songs within the CD, or a setting which is close

to heart from the band, looking into the bands life with just one image.

This image has been taken from the back cover of the digipack, typically

known to contain the list of songs on the CD of which this one does.

Making two lists, however rather than separating the lists under CD1and

CD2, they are under the headings of Jupiter and Mars, this of which links

into the theme of the rest of the digipack tying together the space theme.

The back panel also contains the barcode, making it sellable in different

stores or you are able to make online purchases. The back panel also

includes the first shot of the band, this shot of the band is a low shot,

looking up at the band, making them appear big and powerful and as if 

they own ‘the universe’ carrying on the space themes.

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These CDs are different colours to represent

the different planets that they are named

after. They contain small silver shimmers

which can be interoperated as small stars

linking into the space theme and looking

into the milky-way.

Many other digipack’s that contains two cd’s

have two separate colours on the CD’s to be

able to tell the different between which

songs are contained on which CD. These

CD’s are very plain; yet they work extremely

well as the audience understands the

message and links of the themes that is set

onto the CDs.