Star image of Picasso's Enemies

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6. Continued… The band have an existing talent in the sense that they play their own instruments. Own choice of a unique fast paced ‘rhythmic montage’ such as that of the band popping backwards and forwards created and introduced. This syntactic order provides a unique, fragmented style acting as a visual equivalent to the music.

14. Richard Dyer Richard Dyer mentions that a star image is “constructed” and does not represent the real person themselves. Our band now named “Picasso’s enemies” is an organic band. The band first formed at university where they shared the same flat and passion for music. One day they decided to combine their talents together to form a group. The band practised their songs in the garage of one of the group members house until one day when performing at one of their local gigs where recognised and signed up to a record label known as XL recordings. They are a young band and are well known for their fun loving nature as well as performing 100% at gigs. They have a quirky style and their style of music is Indie/Pop.

15. Paradoxes of Richard Dyer Richard Dyer refers to the two paradoxes of a star image with the belief that “The artist is both ordinary and extraordinary”.” Picasso’s Enemies conform to these ideas as they are seen as ‘ordinary’ in the sense that they have normal emotions as well as attitudes and actions that viewers can relate to, such as the band members pulling faces in the frames with the admiration of the female artist. As a result of viewers relating to their actions, a connection is made with the band and therefore an audience/ band relationship can be established increasing the exhibition of sales and albums etc as the audience care about the band members and music. Having said this the second paradox suggests that the band are both present but absent, this is established through the audience feeling close to the band with an emotional connection, however due to the star image and talents of them, the audience can not actually reach out and touch and the band. As a result audiences constantly feel the need to consume more media products in belief that they are filling the gap between themselves and the band.

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