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Eminem digipack analysis

This is a very basic digipack front cover and in general not really what you would expect from Eminem. However he has chosen two colours that contrast well and look very sinister. The font also seems to match the album name and looks like some sort of futuristic font that would be used in something like Halo. 

This is the back of the digipack and as you can see the colouring is the same which is very conventional for a digipack however tis time he has a picture of himself. This is very common particularly for rappers who like themselves to be seen however it is slightly unconventional to have the picture on the back as opposed to the front. 

The two inside covers however don't follow this black and gold colour scheme and instead are purely just photos of Eminem himself. This could be for a number of reasons however i believe it works very well as you open up the digipack going from a dark blank page and it's almost as if Eminem is making it as if he's opening up on himself and is now much more of an open book which is likely what a lot of his songs are about. 

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Our first band rehearsal

 Our first band rehearsal went well with 3 out of the 4 members showing up however we decided we might only need 3 people anyway. We started off by filming them all together as a whole to see how they they look as a group and they all fit perfectly together. They all look very different however at the same time they all fit the aesthetics required. 

Our cast had done very well at learning the song on their instruments as well as our lead singer learning the lines very well. This made our rehearsal very easy as they immedietly got into the songs and played it almost perfectly on the first attempt. 

Richard Dyers star theory

 Richard Dyer is a British media theorist who spoke about a 'stars' special place in the audiences' lives. He beleived that a stars image is "manufactured and artificial" and ever star has their own brand and USP in order to stand out from the rest and have a certain thing for us as an audience to love them for. This for example could be P1NKs hair or Michael Jacksons moonwalk. 

He believed in 2 paradoxes - 

- "A star is both ordinary and extraordinary" - This means that although a star can be just like the average person, ordinary they also have some sort of unique gift and are different in some sort of way. They are "the ideal version of a human". 

- "A star is both present and absent" - This refers to the star alwasy being in our lives and not jsut face to face. They are now on social media and even things like clothes, we may dress like them or occasionally even try to identify as them. For example on the x-factor a woman once went on and called herself Beyoncé and even made herself look like Beyoncé. However they are also absent in that they are "always out of reach" and never actually around.