This document analyzes and compares two magazine advertisements for music albums. The Green Day advertisement features a grainy font suggesting a rebellious style, with the band name standing out in bold against a black background to attract attention. The heart-shaped grenade image implies bleak or depressing songs about lost love. In contrast, the Florence and the Machine advertisement uses a flowing, joined font implying their music has an elegant flow. Florence's peaceful sleeping posture and expression in the image also conveys a calm, gentle sound. Both advertisements place the artist's name at the top in white font against a black background, with the image taking up most of the space.

1. Magazine Advert Analysis Ben Rayment

2. Green Day Advert This is the Green Day album magazine advertisement for the album ‘American Idiot’. If we look at the font we can see its abit grainy and looks dirty at times, this suggests the band are quite rebellious and don’t really care about the presentation of there album. The actual words ‘GREEN DAY’ stand out from the black background as they are white and in a bold font, this is used to attract the audiences eye to the advert. The image in the advert is quite simple, it’s a heart shaped grenade that’s bleeding, this could suggest it has songs about lost love or depression, so the music is quite bleak.

3. Florence and the machine Advert This is the FATM advert for their album ‘lungs’ If we look at the font used for the name of the band we can see its all joined up from this we can assume that the bands music is quite flowing and elegant. The image is of the bands lead singer, Florence, her posture and facial expression suggest a peaceful, sleep like state, this also helps the assumption that the album’s music is peaceful and gentle. All the writing stand out form the background as it is white and the back ground is black.

4. Conclusion All in all if we compare the two magazine album adverts we can see that although both artists produce very different music the have laid there adverts out it similar ways, with the title of the band at the top, the white font on the dark background, the image taking up the majority of the page . When it comes for me to make my magazine advertisement I think I will draw ideas and inspiration from these adverts and also changes some things in mine based on the ones from here.