Textual Analysis of Back Cover 3

This is the back cover for Michael Jacksons history album. This cover follows the same image of the sky but this time without the image of Michael Jackson. The use of sky follows the same imagery taken from the front cover as the sky on the front cover is showing the statues highness and power. This is a good idea because it follow the same image for the front and back covers which looks well presented and shows that it has a meaning behind it because its not just all over the place and not followed. The text is all the same font style. The album has two discs and the album title is put before the start of both sets of lyrics for both disks. Again HIS is an italic and bigger font to the TORY this is emphasising that its HIS history meaning Michael Jacksons. The first disk before the lyrics it says History Begins and the for the second set of lyrics it says History Continues this is showing that with both disks of amazing songs its emphasising that Michael Jackson has had an illustrious career. The lyrics are all in the same font of block capitals which shows it easy to see for the audience and it also goes well with the background again making it easy to read. At the top left it shows a quote from the actual singer himself Michael Jackson which will make the audience want to buy the album so they have an actual quotation of what Michael said. This album cover doesn’t have a bar code which is fairly unique because most albums follow the convention of having a bar cover at either the bottom right or left hand side of the cover. The trademark logos of the distributors and the text about the producers are at the bottom right hand side and this text is significantly smaller than the rest of the text as it isn’t seen as important as the main titles and lyrics of the album.