Ancillary Tasks - Reviewing previous work

For our Ancillary Tasks, we have to make a Digipak CD and Poster to advertise and promote the music video. The Digipak must include a CD, CD case and a leaflet contatining details such as song lyrics, or just pictures of the band.

Before we start creating our own versions of these reference materials, we decided to look at and review the bands versions of the digipak

 The Ballad of Mona Lisa Single DigiPak

Panic at the Disco! released The Ballad of Mona Lisa as a single, and as such, released a Digipak specifically for the song. The CD only had the one feature track present on it, which is unusal, as bands generally upload a few other, older tracks to the CD, or remixes of the single, in order to promote the single and allow fans to get more for their money.

The Cover art consists of simply the Bands Logo and the track name, on a navy blue background. The top right corner is ripped, and the logo and background give a Steampunky vibe, continuing the style of the badn and their latest album 'Vices and Virtues'

The official album with the track on was released later on, under the name 'Vices and Virtues'. It is the bands third studio album. The Album had 10 tracks present, with The Ballad of Mona Lisa being the first. The Artwork continues the Steampunk Theme, with Band member Brendon Urie and Spencer surrounded by strange equipment, as well as wierd actors. The bands logo is present in the top right of the album cover.

The posters released specifically for the album were few and far between, instead the band relying on third party posters and posters relating to the band in generally instead of its latest creation. The only poster directly reffering to the vices and virtues album consists of the CD artwork expanded to fit a bigger size format, and looks more like a movie advertising poster that one would find in a shop, than one for decorative purposes in someones house, though it could still be used for that purpose. Other posters include images of other albums, and pictures of the band together, such as below, though the example appears to have been released in a music magazine, possibly after abn inteview with said publishers.

There is also posters which involve only Brendon and Spencer, since the other members decided to resign from the band.

From the research provided, I believe the duo style poster would benefit our group fantastically, as there are only two of us in the group, as well as only one performer in the music video, meaning that there would be no need to have a whole band shot, since there is no band in our rendition.

For the digipak, we could provide either a similar style to the poster we make, or similar to the bands album cover.