Digipack analysis: Adele

Digipack analysis: 50 Cent- Before I Destruct Myself

 

The album is by 50 Cent called- Before I Self Destruct. Upfront it looks like a plain layout with not much going on, with just 50 Cent at the centre of this album. Looking in further you can see that the main face is destructed and this resembles the name of the album as the name of the album is self destruct and he looking like he is about to destruct. The actual convention used is the face expression, taken stereotypically, the general faces in the rap videos are sad, down and usually angry/annoyed. This is see with the expression of his eyebrow, raised and he is frowning hinting to an aggressive mood.

This is the back cover of the album. the both work really well together, not only the front but the back, you can have a scene set in your mind just by looking at the back of the album, something that is really attractive, is that the back part seems to be on fire, the lighting again another issue, as the darkeness sets a very hostile mood for anyone viewing the album, also this is backed p by smoke and of course giving the impression of a broken up city, making it very interesting and impeccible for someone not to buy, getting very attracted.

Angel album art research

Angel is still counted as an upcoming artist, although quite popular in the UK, he still has a lot of people around the UK who may not have heard of him, i can personally say that some friends in college are not even aware of him. What my main purpose of saying is, that he is still not that well- known and so only has two albums released, to gather information of what type of person and what is represented of him and his style through the art is than very difficult.

Starting with the first official album he released, called '7 minutes before time'- In this album you can see a major close up of the artist's face and another key signifier in just the photo, is the tattoo on his hand which says his name. Apart from this is the digital type face where it represents time, which often can be seen in digital format and in this case is in the title of the album. Cleverly if you notice, instead like other album covers where the artist name is blatantly shown, you have the tattoo showing the name indirectly.

The second and more recent album from Angel is called 'in between time' - In this album there is a smokey theme where the album, seems to be covered with a black and smoke theme, all you can see is another close up of the artist's face but mainly shown are the eyes.


Overall you can see that each album has a movement and image, it started with the before time than moved too, in between time, the next could be after time possibly.