Katy perry digipak analysis
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This document analyzes the digipak for a Katy Perry album. It discusses examining the images used, how the text relates to the images, how the imagery represents Perry, her music genre, and overall image. It also considers any signifiers specific to Perry or her genre and what the digipak reveals about her label, intended audience, and context within the music industry.
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Katy perry digipak analysis
- 1. Katy Perry Digipak Analysis Images used Text Relationship between text and images – how they work together? How the iconography represents the band, the genre of music and their overall Image Are there any signifiers exclusives to bandgenre What does the advert/digital say about the institutional context of the music i.e. the label, mainstream, underground, first album etc. What can we learn about the potential target audience i.e. specialist, niche, mainstream, complication Comment on anything else relevance
- 2. Laura Mulvey – Male gaze