Difference between digipaks and CD cases

A digipak contains a fold out mechanism, kind of like a book. The album cover is normally placed on the front, where as the track listings are normally found on the back of the digipak. When you open it up you will find the CD itseld, a little leaflet containg information about the songs and the  copyrights of  the song and whatever else they want to include on it. As well as this they would of bought artistic value to the fold out's.

The main aim of a digipak is to increase value, as well as this provide added information about the song,they are allowed to promote other CDs, tell us about album cover and history of the artist, who is the record company is and information on the record label.
I am going to create a 6 sided digipak and my aim is to make it as Intriguing and summoning as possible. I am going to do this by using colourful images and large fonts.

A Cd cover, this is also known as a jewel case, it consist of a plastic protective cover, and then a holding CD tray in the middle where you can put your CD. At the front it is normally left clear so you can put the album cover in it, this means that when you look at the front of the Cd you will see the album cover. Then on the back this is where the track listings are found, obviously with the Cd in the middle.
It has some advantages and disadvantages to a digipak,the advantage are; Cheaper, more reliable, less easy to damage, easier to carry, more accesable and its lighter. Where as the disadvantages are; does not contain as much artwork, does not contain as much information and is not as 'pretty.'


My digipak will contain;

• Artist name.
• The song.
• Infomation about the song.
• Album cover.
• The Cd.
• Information on song.
• Information on video.
• My company logo.
• Company info.
• Lyrics to the song.