50 Cent ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’ Magazine Analysis

The background in this magazine advert really tells you a lot about the genre and the artist. It seems to be 50 Cent dressed like a stereotypical thug. But the main aspects you want to pick up on looking at the background is the gun in the bottom stripe of the magazine. The gun helps back up the idea of the genre of music that the

artist produces Hip-Hop.

The aspect of typography used to make this magazine advert more effective to been sold more often is the size and the colour of the text. The 50 Cent text is there to make it obvious to the reader that he is the artist. Due to him being a well known artist people are more likely are going to think about purchasing the album. Also the Title of the film is in Red because they want it to be obvious for the reader, so thats why it is in

large text and also in Red.

The colour scheme that the magazine advert uses is the black, white and read combo. These colours work really well. This is due to helps to brings out information that needs to picked up from the reader. For example the name of the album being ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’ this information is obvious to the reader due to the colour being in contrast with the rest of the image.

The mise-en-scene in this image helps a lot to connect to the genre. The genre being hip hop it is oblivious due to the 3 strip method. In the first strip we have 50 Cent’s head has a bandana, this is usually associated with thugs and the Hip hop genre. The middle strip is the back of 50 cent at the obvious mise-en-scene that you can pick up on is the tattoos. This is related to Thugs and the genre, then we have the bottom strip where we have a gun, this is connected to the thug stereotype and the

genre of music