Digipak first draft feedback from peer groups

The following text is feedback we received from class members about the first draft of our feedback:

• Love the photograph where you're on the stairs, its so professional, the black and white theme is nice, not sure about the text, it looks a bit microsoft wordy
• I think there is far to much going on in most of the squares in this digipak. I think there is a lot to much to look at so if someone was looking at it in a shop they would not read all of it.
• Good variety of pictures, introduces the band well. Could add colour similar to music video.
• WWW: Great Hybrid Beauty Font! Great quality photos, perfect special thanks page and cool picture page. EBI: You lose the black and white like you did in the video. Remove the slanted on 'hybrid beauty'. Difficult to read some of the song names because of hair. CD is basic but effective but would be better if it wasn't on a black background. Special thanks page is brilliant don't change unless adding colour!
• As said above, I really like Hybrid Beauty's digipak as the colour scheme is brilliant and it really establishes the identity of a 3 piece group.
• The hybrid beauty digipak also uses a lot of pictures. All the pictures look professional. A lot of people have used a black and white background, maybe use colour? The fonts and the pictures go well with the with the rest of the digipak. Over all the layout is really good and it all goes well together.
• Middle panel on the top - not loving this font and style. The CD isn't too strong either, overlay a semi transparent image of the band in B&W to create stronger imagery, and the blue link doesn't work - try making it a mid-grey to complete the colour scheme. Overall, though, the layout is great, and goes with the conventions of the genre!
• Flawless.
• I like the fonts that have been used as they are very individual. There isn't much colour which means the digipak doesn't stand out. The lack of colour doesn't go with the artists genre.
• I like the digipak but it feels very busy, maybe calming it down will help.
• Maybe add in a lyrics page rather than 2 pages of pictures.
• I like the black and white theme i think there could be more writing and less pictures
• White text on white background makes it hard to read Copied me for the download thing, copyrighted it Font looks strange with blocks instead of gaps in o's
• Fun layout, girly vibe. Black and white a bit boring? 'Special Thanks' page looks cheesy
• i'm confused as to what the album name is as there is only the band name on it - does this mean it is self-titled or am i missing it? i like the black and white colour scheme and the use of the pictures throughout. the fonts and colours link together on each section and the 'special thanks' is a cute addition.
• Good theme with black and white, interesting digipak pages. Improvement: make it fit a bit better into the boxes so it looks more professional

After reading this, we are going to try our best to make the following improvements:

• Some feedback says that there is too much going on in the squares and they wouldn't read it all if it was in a shop - from this we will try to simplify the amount of information on some of the digipak pages
• Some feedback says to perhaps get rid of the black and white - we will not be doing this as we really like the theme of black and white and it ties in really well with our website and video - synergy people! 
• Our CD is too simple so we will try to make this a bit more interesting, more words/images, more copyright labels?
• Adding in a lyrics page rather than two image pages - good idea!
• Our album is self titled, there shouldn't be any confusion about this!
• Overall, we received some great feedback saying it looks really professional, the font is good and the images go with the conventions of the genre. Although we will make some changes, these will be minor not major and to our liking