The Fun. digipak has a very clear style/image, the only three colours used throughout all of the panels are black, white and red, this is a very typical colour scheme and we'll be using dark colours and a bright red to be highlighted in our digipak. The limited colour makes it stand out more, the contrast between the black/white and the red is very clear and the red seems almost garish in comparison. This represents the band as being simplistic in their style, perhaps the red connoting underlying themes in the music, the use of mise en scene here creates a clear, distinctive style separating the band from other artists who aren't likely to use the same colour scheme.

 

The band is seen on two panels, on panel one and panel five, it's the exact same image of the band except on panel one there are white striped across the picture and in panel five there's a red filter over the picture. This creates the idea that the band is their image, they're embedded into it and they can't really be seen in a different light because of it (Dyer: Longevity). Panel three is the cover of the digipak however it doesn't feature the band themselves, it's of a drawn/sketched hand holding up the bands logo/album name on a card. This adds an element of creativity to the album and suggests that the ideas the band portrays are more important than their image, something conventional of artists in this genre, seen through the digipaks and the magazine adverts I analysed.

 

The text is sans serif however it has small cuts in the text at certain points to add distinction to letters and create the bands own type of font, the letters are all upper-case like the two previous digipaks I've analysed and stands out more by doing this. The standing out is something this digipak does very well through it's use of colour as well as with the font. The back cover (panel 2) features a long shot of an unknown person stood by the sea, she appears to be stood with apprehension connoting some kind of deep thought or potentially a suicide (Seen in Mumford and Sons also), the anonymity of the person creates a kind of suspense and intrigue as we wish to find out who it is and what they're doing. Presumably this links in with the album, all the songs seem to focus around the theme of isolation and staying positive despite this (Carry on, why am I the one, all alone, it gets better) reinforcing dark themes of suicide but also bringing in themes of recovery too.

          The beach is also featured on panel six where the person from panel two is stood with another unknown person once again staring at the sea. The beach connotes sunshine, ice cream and sand castles, all quite positive things however the use of a black and white filter over the image makes it seem much more dismal and less happy like the things we associate the beach with. This could be representative of the theme of recovery that album is showing contrasting the picture on panel two that could represent the worse times and themes of isolation and being alone. This is clever in how it's placed and I think we should consider placement and effect it has on the meaning very carefully as it could be beneficial.

 

Panel four of the digipak has a mid shot of a woman on it, her hair is blowing in the wind and she's looking at something off-screen this creates interest in the subject of her gaze and also makes the audience question who she is and why she's there. Presumably this is the woman featured on panel six walking with the other human seen on panel two and she also represents the themes of loneliness and then recovery in panel six. This is a well thought out digipak and I think we should definitely use this one as inspiration when creating our digipak.