Key Terms: genre, star image, encoding, decoding, preferred readings (Hall's theory), REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTS (Altman's theory), NARRATIVE, the same but different - developing, using conventions.
You should:
- Drawn or photo mock-up design of digipak – 2 panes (front and back) on A3 paper.
- Annotated with conventional and technical features.
Annotate the designs with the conventional technical elements (barcode, song titles, publisher etc) but also label the designs with how the Media Language of print will help encode the star image and metanarrative of the performer – font, colours, design, graphics, illustration, framing etc. What are the conventional design features for your genre that you will be including? What are you using to encode meaning – what media language will you be employing – font, text, colour, images etc?
PDF the design into your blog.