Welcome to my A2 Media Studies Blog. The brief is: to produce a music video, a digipak cover, and magazine advert for the digipak. Throughout the course we will be learning about conventions (general and genre specific) used for each of these products.

Monday, 9 January 2012

RM - Digipak Deconstruction - Nirvana "Bleach"

Artist: Nirvana
Album Title: "Bleach''
Album Producer: Jack Endino
Record Company: Sub pop Records
Genre: Grunge
Year Released: 2009 (originally released in 1989)

Additional Information: 20th Anniversary Special Edition

The cover of the digipak is black and white with an image of the three band members playing their own instruments. The bands name is in grey block capital letters  about the picture with the same font and colour for the title. On the front cover there is also a sticker in the top left hand corner signifying the digipak is a 20th anniversary. In the digipak the CD features extra content including never before released complete performance from 9/2/90. As well as a 52 page booklet featuring many unseen photographs.

When the audience opens the front panel they see a black and grey photograph of a group shot of the band members. Further inside the digipak each of the inside panels have a continuous photograph of each band member one per panel (From left to right Kurt Cobain, Chad Channing and Krist Novoselic). The section also includes a 52-page booklet featuring many unseen photos and never-before-released complete live performance from 9/2/90.

The back panel features of white writing in the same style as the front panel with the black background and grey capital letters.









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