Album cover analysis

Linkin Park (Album Cover):

• As we can see from this album cover is only has 3 different colours and a lot of different shades. For example the bands name, 'linkin park' is quite dark but looks as if it has been worn away at, seen from the little bits of white we can see in the title. The attention is focused around this title, and is boxed slightly with corners of a rectangle put around this title, trying to draw focus to this bands name.
• In the bottom right hand corner of this album cover it shows the albums name in brackets, this could possibly be a message to the market saying that the albums name is not important, because it is not wrote in any particular font and is not in huge size, this could suggest a sense of less importance to the rest of features of this cover. The main definition of Hybrid is the product of dissimilar of two things, which brings a sense of mystery of this album. 
• The man who seems to be running in this cover seems to be wearing an army type of uniform and holding some sort of long Axe or flag possibly. This could represent a sense of loneliness associated to the songs or possibly the band, but this is only a speculation.
• The back of this album, is quite basic, has the list of songs, bar code and the album name and bands name on it again. Something that is quite unique to this album cover is that the producers have put how long the songs are on for next to the song names, which is quite different to most album covers. The album also features the bands logo on the back.
  
  

Linkin park (Logo):

The linkin park logo, has quite an unique urban association to the logo. The 'p' in this logo is actually the wrong way round, but this sort of style is used in all of the bands logo. It also looks as if it has been spray painted onto a wall, suggesting a sense of street like qualities to the band and the songs.  It is also sort of boxed which is used around most of the words on anything that linkin park is associated with. Finally the letters are put in a white colour onto a black background, as well as the bracket border is also put in a white sort of colour.

Linkin park (poster):

This poster is put in a red sort of colour, as if it is a picture in a dark room. The bands name is in top center suggesting great importance so anybody looking at the poster can assume immediately that the band that is being marketed here is called Linkin park. The band members actually appear on this poster, there are six members and each of them have a small picture of them performing live at concerts which has been put in black and white to suggest a sense of memory to it, as if it is only a memory type thing. The members also appear in the background of this poster. The man from the album cover of 'hybrid theory' also features on this poster as well, which could suggest that this poster was published at the same time the album was produced. The butterfly wings added to this man, is quite a contradiction, because a butterfly is seen to be quite a beautiful creature and man of war is seen to be quite brutal so it is quite a big comparison.

Linkin park (music video):

• From the first shot, we see a girl looking over some sort of building or bridge to sea, then goes to a shot of the landscape of a lot of houses which are quite basic, with one half lite by natural lighting and one half still in shadow.
• We then see the band playing in an abandoned place, from some symbolic objects and candles we can assume this location is most probably a church of some description or somewhere religious.
• It then cuts to a classroom with the teacher at the front of the class pointing out things from a black board, and all the students except from the girl before are all watching and listening intently, yet the girl is drawing. From what we see of the drawings, they could be perceived as angels.
• It then shows the teacher banging a stick onto the desk of the girl because of her lack of attention, as this happens the other students begin to laugh at the girl bringing a sense of victimization of the girl.
• We see a statue of a woman with a man at her feet, whilst she is holding a baby, which looks quite religious, this whole video seems to link back to religion, because of the lyrics, the locations or just the drawings.
• We then see a sped up version of everyone else around the girl, when the chorus comes into the song, this could highlight her alienation and loneliness. The girl is then pushed over by another girl, we start to assume that this girl will most probably commit suicide.
• The viewer then sees the relationship between the girl and her mother, yet this is quite contradictory to the lyrics of the song at this point 'cant you see that you're smothering me' when the mother is actually arguing with her daughter and the daughter seems to be ignoring this and just looks upset.
• We then see the video becoming more blurry possibly because we are seeing it from the girls perception and that she is starting to think quite negatively and shut her eyes to everything.
• The girl then tries to sit with some other girls with her lunch, this highlights her alienation when we see the other girls get up and leave her without saying anything, the people then speed up around her again, this could symbolize how she feels as if she is going no-where compared to everyone else around her.
• We presume that the girl has just self harmed on her wrists, as she ties up her hair, and starts to look into a mirror. She then starts to aggressively paint on a canvas as the song comes to a climax.
• At the end we see the girl running towards where the band had been playing, except they have disappeared, giving us a question of whether they were ever there, although the equipment they were using is still scattered around where they were playing.