Rihanna's magazine advert for her upcoming album features a close-up shot of her wearing sunglasses and covering her mouth with her hand as if holding a gun. The background is out of focus to draw attention to Rihanna, who is portraying both an edgy and girly side with her outfit of fur and rings. Her vibrant red hair emphasizes her fun personality and influence on her large audience. The advert includes the album name and singles to make the upcoming album recognizable and persuade fans to buy it.

1. Analysis of magazine advert

2. This magazine advert for Rihanna’s upcoming album at the time
shows the main artist herself as the main image. The main image
takes up the whole background of the page. We can see the
background has been placed out of focus as the main focus is on
the artist Rihanna It is a close up shot showing Rihanna wearing
sunglasses however we can see through them at Rihanna looking
down away from the camera. Her hand is as if she is holding the
gun symbol up as she covers her mouth with it, this may reflect
some of her music or represent the expectations of RnB artists
and ‘street life’. We can see that the artist is wearing fur at the
same time as wearing sunglasses in the hot weather. This
emphasises her wealth and image as she is trying to make a
statement with this outfit. On her hand she is wearing rings and
one of the rings has a massive flower on it, this represents her
girly side as we can see both an edgy and girly side to Rihanna.
Her vibrant red hair portrays her fun and crazy side and shows
how she can pull off such exotic and bright hair, which may
influence her large target audience to do the same. Her name is
written at the top of the page in thin white font along with the
name of the album written nearer the bottom of the page. This
very simple font makes the page look professional and doesn’t
take the attention away from the main image. At the very bottom
of the page there is another image and it shows what the album
will look like when released, this is effective because now the
audience will recognise it anywhere they go, also because
Rihanna looks similar in the album cover photo with the same
vibrant hair and the way she is looking down away from the
camera. The text at the bottom includes singles that will be
featured on the album. They purposefully included these singles
as they are songs that the target audience will already be familar
with and will persuade them to then go and buy the album when
released.