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The front cover is a suited man, possibly on stage, with curtains behind him and roses on the floor. This image corresponds to the album name- 'Curtain call', as the name suggests someone's queue to go on stage. This can conform and disagrees with the genre of the music, Eminem is a rapper, and so being on stage can work with the image. Although the dress of the man suggests he's of a higher class to what would usually be associated with the rap culture and therefore does not conform to the genre. The name of the rapper is bold and clearly visible, with the title of the album also clearly visible underneath. The album cover itself isn't very bold and may not stand out, leading me to believe that this album might be for people who already enjoy this particular rapper's music and have come back to buy it. The cover does not seem like it has been made to stand out from other covers. The rapper’s signature name with a backwards ‘E’: the fan will recognise this. The swirls used under the name and title of the album linking to theatrical performances and art. The face not being revealed uses mystery to entice. The main conventions of the front cover of the digipak is the main image, the colours used, the name of the rapper and the name of the album.

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The front cover is a suited man, possibly on stage, with curtains behind him and roses on the floor. This image corresponds to the album name- 'Curtain call', as the name suggests someone's queue to go on stage.

This can conform and disagrees with the genre of the music, Eminem is a rapper, and so being on stage can work with the image. Although the dress of the man suggests he's of a higher class to what would usually be associated with the rap culture and therefore does not conform to the genre.

The name of the rapper is bold and clearly visible, with the title of the album also clearly visible underneath.

The album cover itself isn't very bold and may not stand out, leading me to believe that this album might be for people who already enjoy this particular rapper's music and have come back to buy it. The cover does not seem like it has been made to stand out from other covers.

The rapper’s signature name with a backwards ‘E’: the fan will recognise this.

The swirls used under the name and title of the album linking to theatrical performances and art.

The face not being revealed uses mystery to entice. The main conventions of the front cover of

the digipak is the main image, the colours used, the name of the rapper and the name of the album.

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The back cover carries on the theme of the roses and man in a suit.

It is complex but with a bold white font, we are able to see the writing, the larger being the songs or people who contributed to the album, and the smaller writing the production details which the fans do not need to see and contains the legal information such as copy right.

Not seeing the man's face on both covers is mysterious and could add an element of the unknown, something which could be big in the rap world.

The conventions of the back of the digipak are the track names, the running order, an image, colours used throughout and the production details.

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The CD panel and CD itself also follows the theme of the roses, but have been removed of colour, so the entire CD is in black and white, bar the name of the album.

This may have been done for the name of the album to stand out as its the name the consumer will be seeing when putting the CD into the CD player.

The green used is a bright colour and stands out among a lot of other colours, so to use it for the name of the album would have been done to stand out.