Detailed Analysis

Kanye West - GRADUATION

Nets

Digipak nets are the outline of the digipak itself and can range from 4 to 6 sides. These nets usually include 2 sides for images and any other sides for internal images, booklets, song lyrics, tour dates and much more. These nets are used to experiment different themes for the digipak in order for it to stand out to the audience and get people to buy it.

The front of the digipak usually includes an image of the artist, followed by the name of the artist and the title of the album making it easy to stand out to the audience whos album it is. It may also show release dates of singles or the actual album itself.

Retailers: High Street and Online

High street retailers, such as HMV (the most well known retailer for these) sell digipaks of a wide range with many different genres of music. Across the whole of HMV, there are many digipaks to choose from placed in areas underneath the heading 'Music', 'Chart', 'New Releases' the genre of the music or under a certain artists name e.g. Michael Jackson. However society is now moving towards Vinyls again which is old-fashioned but is now seen as the new, cool thing to have.

Online retailers, such as amazon sell the same digipaks that high street retailers do but some at a cheaper price, plus you wont have to leave your house to get them. However due to todays society, online streaming is used by the vast majority e.g. Spotify, soundcloud etc. Therefore, not many people are out there buying these CD's anymore as they van get them for free from these streaming sites.

Research: DIGIPAKS

1. Elements of real digipaks:

Sinéad O'Connor - "I do not want what I haven't got"

• Front cover: Photograph of the artist, the artists name and the name of the album. 
• Back cover: Track-list of the album, the record labels 'Chrysalis Records' and 'Ensign Records', a barcode and all the institutional info. 
• Spine: Name of the artist, album name and record label.
• There is an 8 frame booklet inside the album with lyrics from the songs on the track-list. alongside a thank you message and an image with a quote.

James Morrison - "The Awakening"

• Front cover: Photograph of the artist, the artists name and the name of the album.
• Back cover: Track-list of the album, the record label 'Universal Island Records', a barcode and all the institutional info.
• Spine: Name of the artist, album name and record label.
• There is a 14 frame booklet inside the album with images of the artist and lyrics from the songs on the track-list.

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Breaks $427 Million at Global Box Office

After 13 days at the international box office, the latest from Disney and Marvel has earned $282.6 million. That, combined with the film’s opening weekend domestic take of $145 million, brings its global total to $427.6 million.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” made more than $106 million in its first weekend at 58% of overseas territories last weekend. This weekend the movie earned an estimated $124 million abroad after opening in several more major foreign markets including Korea, Russia and China. The top five territories were China ($48 million); the U.K. ($35.7 million); Germany ($18.4 million); Australia ($17.2 million); and France ($16.1 million).

“Guardians 2” pushes Marvel’s Cinematic Universe past $11 billion in combined global grosses — that’s from 15 films since the MCU’s inception in 2008. Released in 2012, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the highest grossing of the lot with $1.5 billion worldwide. Other billion-dollar earners are “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ($1.4 billion); “Iron Man 3” ($1.2 billion); and “Captain America: Civil War” ($1.15 billion).

Orange Is The New Black - Hacked

Ever since the hacker identifying themselves as TheDarkOverlord released most of the upcoming fifth season of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” on file sharing networks this past weekend, two questions have been left unanswered: Who are these guys? And why did they do it?

TheDarkOverlord would gain access to a network, copy sensitive data, and then approach the affected company with a ransom demand, threatening to otherwise release the data online

TheDarkOverlord is demanding payments via the cryptocurrency Bitcoin from affected companies. They apparently asked Larson Studios for 30 Bitcoin, which at current exchange rates equals about $45,000, to not release any of the movies and TV shows it got hold of. Larson didn’t pay, and TheDarkOverlord decided to take its demands directly to Netflix and other affected networks and studios, only to release ten episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” this past weekend.

'Rogue 1: A Star Wars Story' (Edwards, 2016)

• The female character is the largest of the characters on the poster and this highlights that she is the main protagonist of the film. 
• The divide between the troopers and the rebellion shows the two different sides and suggests that the two will be against each other in the film.
• The title of the film uses the synergistic star wars font and is in a dark colour on top so that it stands out to the audience.
• The date is shown at the bottom, highlighting the release date of the film (December 16th)