Favourite Worst Nightmare // Arctic Monkeys Digipak

The Arctic Monkeys album Favourite Worst Nightmare that a thought-alluding digipak as it denotes various juxtaposition and contrast throughout.  The cover includes a block of terraced houses with a black and white filter over laying the cover. However the windows show a wide range of coloured patterns within, this connotes how the window is chaotic with the patterns and swirls. This is all very random which connotes it has not been made for a specific purpose other than to create a random effect. ‘Worst nightmare’ represents the black house and the dark feeling towards the digipak cover as black and darkness is associated to nightmares and scared feelings. The wide colours represent ‘favourite’ as there is a contrast of feelings of happy colours as well as black and dark. The front cover and inside the digipak reveals The Arctic Monkeys as they grew up in Sheffield, which is mainly based around council estates, therefore their digipak shows their background and more about the band themselves. The favourite worst nightmare emphasises how growing up in inner cities can be a nightmare can be negative but yet the band has made the most out of it and is still their favourite place to be. The colours inside the windows and the surreal pictures emphasise the parties and the craziness of where they live. 

This image for front of the album has been edited, a grayscale effect has been used, and this creates a bleak look for the digipak. This uses the connotations of a never ending nightmare, which fits in with the title of the album. The whole front of the digipak is not grey and bleak, as in one of the houses on the council estate; a geometric pattern can be seen. By having this bright pattern in the window shows party and fun, creating a feeling of safety and fun which emphasises the oxymoron in the album title.
The band and album name are displayed in a font style which grabs the audience’s attention. The font is disjointed and conforms to the genre of the album, as the font is alternative.  The font has several weird angles, which makes the album and bands name eye catching to the audience, also where the font is a brighter colour than the grayscale effect, this denotes how important the band’s name is and the album name is. The front cover also conforms to the conventions of the genre, as the band is not featured on the album.

The grayscale effect has been added to the inside section of the digipak. This reinforces the house style of the album and connotes consistency throughout the album. This effect of the album helps to constantly emphasises the dark nightmare in which the album is entitled. This image is of a large window with four different sections of a terraced house, which is in the same style of all the houses. Where this shot in a close up of the house, this suggests to the audience that they are getting closer. This use of different images with the same subject creates; this keeps the audiences interested as there is artwork of the digipak. The window is framed in the middle, drawing the audience’s attention to it.
The window is split into four different sections representing a typical window pane and the each four section is different artwork, highlighting four different areas of the nightmare. The patterns in the window are easily recognisable to the audience and the patterns provide self-pleasure to the audience.  The animated characters which are featured are non-threatening and add a fun element to the digipak. The same colours and theme is used consistently throughout the digipak e.g. the gray scale as a background colour and the green is used throughout and is located in the text, patterns and spine of the album.

The lighted room surrounded by darkness, lets the audience see into the bands deepest thoughts and desires. The light in the darkness evokes a curious reviewer to want to almost open up the patterns and see what’s inside.