Album cover analysis

The title is the largest size writing on the album showing its importance. This stands out from anything else on the album and is the first thing you look at when you see the Album. Then below you have the album name Levels. Both are in different fonts normally seen, this is another factor to why it stands out.

The Album cover is called levels. They have used a picture of two elevators for this. This relates to the Album name as an elevator goes up and down levels. It also uses a shadow effect around the picture to make the elevator stand out in the middle.

The Album name is also the same name as the number one hit on the album which is called levels. The name levels is also styled as le7els with a 7 instead of the v, to make it slightly different, this also makes the title stand out.

The title Magnetic man is the name of the artist, there is no name of the album on the cover, this isn't very common. The font of the title ‘ Magnetic Man’ looks like some future style. All the letters have been slightly changed, maybe adding a line or putting a line through the letters. The main picture on the album is what seems to be

the letter ‘M’. However it looks as if it is breaking. There is also a strong light behind it which gives us the impression the light is trying to break through.

You can tell the genre from this album cover quite easily. The font for magnetic man is the main clue, this is in a very technical style giving the views the impression of a dance/electronic genre album

The letter M looks like its slowly breaking apart as well which could be saying something to do with the album or artist.

The Genre of this album is easily recognised from the album cover. First of all we have the blood and pattern splatters, this could mean one or two genres of music, house/dance or heavy rock. We can then look at the title which is very electronic and computerised, we also have the guy dressed up with normal clothes however a mouse mask.

The art work is very similar to Banksy’s art work. This also gives an impression that it is a modern album. The style of the art work is graffiti and the style of the writing is slanted with fading, a lot like graffiti.

We also can see the mouse mask which is an iconic image that we associated with deadmouse.

The artist, 50 cent, is looking straight at us. This is called direct mode of address.

The album title is situated at the bottom in a font which implies that the genre will be hip hop. The font is quite graffiti like and uses colours such as white and blue to stand out. We also know that his name is the album title.

You also have the dark image and he expression on 50 cents face, which is angry. This also gives buyers an impression of the genre. We can also see tattoo on the hand which could be gang inflicted, which gives us another picture of the genre.

In the picture we have a high angled light, this could imply that he is being interrogated, this would also explain the expression and the dark room.

The bling on his wrist is used to promote himself.