Description on Grime digipaks and specifically the album covers Verses the music videos

1. Grime Digipaks
Album Covers and music videos

2. Examples of different Album covers

3. Analysis of specific Digipaks
These 3 examples of Grime Digipaks are by far the easier ones out of the
bunch of examples to reproduce for my own digipak.
These digipaks simply consist of the main artist (standing by either a wall or in
a park so basically very urban setting).Then a title of text with the artists name
and the name of the album they are promoting.These convey the conventions
of the genre very well and are a common aspect to the music videos as well.

4. Bunch of potential Digipak shots we took

5. Bunch of potential Digipak shots we took

6. A Grime digipak that relates to a music video
Both use same dark colour scheme.The lighting is
low level.The costume is the same.These all get
across the same message about the artist – that he is
a man of god who also sins.
Stormzy “Gang Signs & Prayer”
album cover
Screenshot from music video “FirstThings First” on the album

7. More analysis on the actual Album cover
Artists name then
below the album title.
The main artist “Stormzy”
His friends or “Gang” surrounds
Him to portray the gang signs
aspect of the album title.The
Mese en scene portrays this well
As the costumes they are wearing
Are typical of what a gang would
Wear.
This scene replicates the
“last supper” scene featuring
JesusWhich then portrays his
Loyal to God And the
message behind the album
As well as the gang aspect
which also gets covered.
This album cover features the typical conventions of a Grime digipak in the
sense that the main aspects of the cover are the Artist himself, the artists
name and then the name of the album.The difference with this one however
is that it dosen’t include an urban background that most Grime digipaks have.

8. Another Grime digipak that relates to a music video
Jaykae “Toothache” single cover
Screenshot from the Jaykae Toothache music video
For the cover of the song you can clearly see they took a
screenshot from the music video and incorporated it into the
cover for the single. Specifically when the artist is doing a gun
finger sign which relates to the topics spoken about in the song.

9. More analysis on the actual Album cover
Artists name then
below the album title.
The main artist “Jaykae”
Jaykae is seen doing a gun finger
Sign which relates to the violence
Jaykae addresses in the song.
Because of the aspect ratio of
the music video compared to
The ratio for the cover. It
Means that you get these
Black bars in the cover which
Works out quite well with
Putting the Artist title and the
Parental advisory sign.
This album cover features the typical conventions of a Grime digipak in the
sense that the main aspects of the cover are the Artist himself, the artists
name and then the name of the album.The difference with this one however
is that it dosen’t include an urban background that most Grime digipaks have.