LACEY’S REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTS

• Characters

• Narrative events

• Iconography

• Setting (mise en scene)

• Technical and audio codes

CHARACTERS

The character on this CD cover is a man and his

younger self, they are up in the clouds and very

lonely, we know this because he is up in the clouds

and there is no one else and nothing else on the CD.

One of the CDs is the young boy who looks a lot like

Drake so we can tell already that it is his CD. He has

no visible clothing on just a gold chain which tells us

that he is a stereotype of the rap genre.

NARRATIVE EVENTS

The narrative is showing a man and a young man who are

not happy, this is shown through the empty sky and the

loneliness of the two on the CD pack, and the text is in the

colour black and white which may connote sadness in some

form. Drake is in the sky with clouds around him, this may

say that he is in heaven and is happy or is in the sky alone

and is very lonely. However on the images he has no facial

expression so it is difficult to know how he is feeling.

ICONOGRAPHY

The sky on the CD cover shows the loneliness of

the star and it makes us confused about the general

feeling of the CD, happiness or sadness. There is no

props on the CD cover it is very simple which again

tells us they are lonely.

SETTING

The mise en scene is very simple there is not a lot going on in

the frame. There is just sky and clouds and the two side faces

of the man and his younger self. This makes the viewer think

that the album is going to be simple and there isn’t going to be

much on there. There is high key lighting on there which again

shows simplicity. On both people there is no visible clothing,

the older Drake is just wearing a chain which shows the

stereotype of rap, that explains the general genre of the album.

TECHNICAL AND AUDIO CODES

The whole CD is high key lighting which shows the

happiness and sadness and also the lack of colour

shows the simplicity, the blue connotes water and

the sky which shows the natural things about the

album, this is the opposite to what it actually is.

Most of the images are medium shots and long shots

which let the viewer see the whole picture of what is

going on.