This document summarizes and analyzes several album covers and promotional materials for Eminem's "Recovery" album: 1) The original album cover features Eminem from behind walking up a road, symbolizing his recovery from drug addiction. It has a simple blue/grey color scheme. 2) An alternate album cover depicts Eminem trapped in a glass box, representing feeling trapped by his drug abuse. 3) A promotional poster exactly replicates the original cover but adds the release date and critic reviews to sell the album. 4) The single cover for "No Love" features a minimal white background and links to the album covers through elements like the parental advisory stamp.

1. This is Eminem’s album cover for ‘Recovery’. The cover is quite simplistic as the image only features the artist
from behind walking up a road and the text only takes up a small amount of the right hand corner. He chose to
have this cover after news broke that he was a drug addict, the title recovery fits perfectly to the message of
him healing and recovering along with his back facing us symbolizing him walking away from and leaving behind
his drug addiction. The colour scheme is quite realistic, simplistic but slightly dull, it is mainly of blue/grey tones
allowing the bright yellow line on the road to stand out and create contrast. The long straight road is clear and
in focus around Eminem but becomes blurry and out of focus in the distance therefore creating depth. This blur
is to make the audience intrigued and to make them wonder what's beyond this road, therefore drawing you in
to hopefully purchase the album. Eminem’s clothes are of the same blue/grey tone causing him to blend in with
his surrounding making for a very natural, neutral and raw cover. The title in the top right
corner is very relevant to the artist as his signature name is written with the second E
reversed, and so is the title of the album creating a clear link between the artist and his
music. The white, bold, capital lettering stands out very clearly against the blue sky as it
is the brightest feature of the cover. The O in recovery is a medical symbol, this is central of the word causing it
to stand out a lot along with relating to his drug abuse. The ‘Parental Advisory’ sticker is a well known common
warning logo on the explicit content of the album.
This is the secondary album cover the artist released, it is not the cover of the album which is physically sold in
shops but is the cover for some of the albums sold on online sites. This cover represents the artists feeling of
being trapped by drugs, hence the box surrounding him. This cover matches the same colour scheme as the
original album cover and follows the same outside theme. The sky is the same blue colour but features more
clouds on this cover, there is no blur or out of focus areas like in the original cover but still creates depth
because of the buildings and trees being further anyway. The glass box is meant to represent isolation and the
artist feeling trapped, it is a metaphor for the loneliness he now feels from abusing drugs. The fact his regular
home like surroundings are inside with him sat casually on the sofa makes his drug problem more real and raw.
It also makes him seem oblivious to the outside world and that his life has been taken over. The album title is
repeated in the same place and style as the original album.

2. This advertisement is a copy of the album cover therefore creating a clear link between them. Everything is the exact
same apart from extra text added. The artists name is written above the album cover in his signature font of the
reversed second E (as I spoke about in the first slide). It is in black, bold and capital writing and is the same length and
size of the album name. in the bottom right hand corner of the poster is information on the album is white capital
lettering. The biggest information is the date it is released with a single included on the album written underneath.
There is then critics reviews, this information is vital to selling the album as audiences want to know how good/bad the
album is rated. The shape of this advert is rectangular as apposed to a square (which the album is) therefore allowing
for more information to be put on it.
This is the single cover for ‘No Love’ featuring Lil Wayne from the album recovery. The cover is very basic but also
has a correlation due to certain features between the two album covers and advertisement. The background is all
white, allowing the text to be bolder and more noticeable. In the top right corner is the parental advisory stamp
which is also featured on the album covers. It is in the same place creating a link between them. The title of the
single is in very large, bold writing and in the bottom right corner but Is also taking up almost half of the cover. NO
and LVE are in black, capital, bold writing and the O is the same as on the albums, the red medical symbol signifying
his drug abuse, creating a link. Next to the bold title on the right is ‘FEAT. LIL WAYNE’ this writing is smaller but in
the same font and colour, making it all look as one. Underneath the bold title is the artists name. it is written in the
same way as his signature name is with the reversed second E, it is usually in black but on this single cover it is grey,
making the cover slightly more individual. His name is also smaller making the title strand out the most, it is also in
brackets making the title the most important and stand out feature.