The front cover of Chris Brown's album F.A.M.E. uses a collage of colorful images and a picture of Chris Brown to represent his vibrant personality. The graffiti-style text and Brown's facial expression show his confidence and interest in graffiti. The back cover features Brown wearing a helmet, suggesting how he feels about his past issues in the media. The CD cover again shows Brown in a dancing pose, reflecting his talent and what he includes in his music videos. Both the back cover and CD cover use a simpler design than the front cover to show another side of Brown.

1. Analysing Print Media Texts
Manvir Bahia

2. Chris Brown – F.A.M.E

3. Front Cover
The front cover used is very abstract and colourful. The main
background is created by various of images making a collage type with
a drawn picture of Chris Brown overlaid on top. This represents him
and his personality as well as the power he has. Most front covers have
a house style whereas this cover uses a lot of colours, which again
could show how much of a colourful and vibrant person he is being
portrayed as.
The main image we see on the cover is the artist looking straight. His
facial expression shows the power, confidence and bravery. However,
towards the end of the picture it looks like dripping paint which shows
the look of graffiti, this may be used to show how he is as one of his
hobbies which he is good at is using spray cans to create urban theme
pictures which also links back to the r&b genre.
Using this as the front cover doesn’t really tell us what the music is
going to be about however shows just Chris Brown which could be the
main focus that attracts the audience.
A large text has been used that say F.A.M.E which takes up the bottom
of the cover but not a lot which shows how the main focus of the front
cover is about the artist. The word F.A.M.E is short for what he used
‘forgiving all my enemies’ which show us how he doesn’t hold grudges
and how he moves on from the past and wants to focus on himself as
well as his future. In the bottom left corner and graffiti style text has
been used to write ‘Chris Brown’ which also links back to one of his
hobbies which lets people understand more about him and his
personality.
The whole front cover has been used to
represent and to have the main focus of
Chris Brown to show the interests he has
as well as the main focus which is to show
us how much more confident he is and
vibrant he is as a person. The artist makes
R&B music and this album gives off the
effect of a R&B theme, especially with the
graffiti effect.

4. Back Cover
In the back cover everything has changed and doesn’t
really have a link to the colourful vibrant front cover.
However, a soft pink colour has been used in the
background with the same artist, Chris Brown on the left
half of the back cover. However this time you can see him
fully standing with a helmet on his head, which has also
been used on the CD cover too. Although the back cover
doesn’t follow the house style of the front cover it does
with the CD cover.
Chris Browns past hasn’t been a very good one when it
comes to the media so the helmet used could suggest how
he feels although the front cover shows him being more
himself.
The writing used works perfectly with the pink colour and
also makes it easier to read the list, also the place where
the text has been put has been on the right side, where as
usually the text is in the middle, this could suggest how he
is trying to show how he is different.
Chris Brown is wearing simple clothes that you would
generally see people wearing which shows how he is no
different to anyone else which could suggest how he isn’t
trying to be out there by showing anything off. However
the mood of this back cover completely changes after
seeing the front cover because is doesn’t give off the
colourful, vibrant outlook. Even though it isn’t out there
the back cover still represents the artist and would be
suitable for the target audience.

5. CD Cover
The CD cover is again very different to the front cover but
is similar to the back cover. The way the front cover is
vibrant could show how he shows himself to people that
he is confident and different but because the CD and back
cover are simple it could show a different side to him.
The helmet and clothes are the same as the back cover
however he is not standing but leaning backwards like a
dance move. Chris brown is known for being good at
dancing and includes a lot of dancing in his music video so
putting this on his CD cover shows more of himself which I
think is the whole idea that he wants to show to people.
The way the Cd cover has the artist as the main focus it
shows how the main point of the album is because of Chris
and about him.
Two text have been used saying ‘Chris Brown’ and
‘F.A.M.E’ which also again has been shown in a graffiti way.
This shows how one of the main house style is the graffiti.
Next to these texts the artist record label as well as his
personal logo have been added, which shows the
stereotype of different music albums.

6. Chris Browns Previous album is called ‘Graffiti’ which also links back to this album
because of the similarities. This shows us how graffiti is something he likes a lot and is
very good at. This shows the audience more of another side to him and understand his
hobbies.
In the album cover you can see the text ‘Chris Brown’ on the left bottom of the album,
this is exactly the same place as the F.A.M.E album. It is also in a graffiti type which
shows the originality of himself and the house style of most albums.
This album was released before the F.A.M.E album and have a 2 year gap, this shows
us how over the time he still wants to show how he is the same person he always was
and hasn’t changed because of media or any bad press to influence him to do bad.
The clothing that Chris Brown also wears is also simple but still in the fashion which
goes to show how he doesn’t want to put himself out there and show off but wants to
relate with the audience and show us how he is the same as us all.
The background of this isn’t as colourful or vibrant as the F.A.M.E album but the
background is different compared to other artists backgrounds, which shows his
creativity and originality of his album.