This document summarizes three music magazine advertisements. It describes the images, which feature artists holding guitars, and discusses elements like font, positioning, colors and styles that provide information about the genres of country, acoustic and blues music. Details like cowboy hats and rural backgrounds seen in the images and descriptions of the fonts, colors and styles used for the artist names and album titles are meant to indicate the genres represented in the advertisements.
Steve Dawson acoustic guitar country album ad analyzed
1. This is a music magazine
advertisement for Steve
Dawson who is a acoustic guitar
magazine. His genre of music is
country, this is shown with the
codes on this advertisement
page.
The image consists a mid shot
of the artist sitting with a guitar
in his hands. This shows that
that he is an acoustic singer,
songwriter. The cowboy hat
symbolizes that the artist is from
out in the country, as well as the
long sleeve shirt and the beard.
The title has the artists and
albums name. The artists name
has a large font size which is in
the color white. The this is clear
to see compared to the
background. The Album name is
in a lower font size.
The image of the album is on
the page with the font type in
bubble writing. The color
scheme of this is colorful yet it is
slightly faded to give an old,
dirty effect.
This is further information on the
bottom right of the page. The
font size in small as it is not
as important content.
This is the release date of the
album
2. The title has the artist
name and name of
the album. They are both
in bold however they have
a different font size, type
and color. The name of the
artist is in bold and is in the
color black, it
is positioned at the top
center. The reason why it is
positioned there is because
it is important information.
The image consists of mid
shot of the artist holding a
guitar facing to his left. The
mise en scene shows the
genre to be country soul.
This is because he is
wearing a cowboy hat and
standard blue jeans with a
shirt and blazer. His beard
and haircut also suggests
he is from out in the
country as this style is
quite popular there.
The field in the background
suggests that the music is
made from out in the
country.
3. Here is the date of
the magazine
This is the front cover to
the music magazine as it
shows the name of
the magazine. Which
is (BLUES BLAST)
magazine. The name of the
artist and the album is
positioned on the bottom
right of the page. This is
because the
magazine name is more
important at the top
therefore the album is
positioned below.
The name of the artist and
album is listed here. The
artist name is in a larger
font than the album and it
is in the color white. The
albums name is in a
smaller font with the color
blue.
The image consists of a mid shot of the artist
holding a guitar and a microphone which is
similar to the other two music magazine
advertisements for acoustic soul and county.