This magazine advert uses minimal color and imagery to convey the genre of music. A large black and white image of a half-naked man grabs readers' attention, suggesting a wild and rock-oriented style of music. Unusually, there is as much text as imagery on the advert, including reviews of the album, which is an interesting distinctive feature. The plain background is also unusual for an advert, as they typically stand out more to grab attention. Overall, the advert does not follow regular conventions for music advertisements.

1. Music magazine advert analysis

2. In this magazine advert there is little to no colour, this adds to the effect and the genre the advert is attempting to produce. the fact there is no colour gives off the impression there will be no real vibrancy to the type of music. A large image coming out of the page almost grabs the attention of readers. Him being half naked gives off an impression of the genre being slightly wild and conforming to the typical rock stereotype. On almost every advert it contains where you can buy it and usually has an I-tunes tag on it meaning you can download it from there. (one of the biggest music Unusually for a magazine advert there is an equal amount of writing and imagery, there have been reviews included on this advert about the album which is a fairly unique and interesting feature. The background to this advert is very plain and with no real features on it, this is unusual for an advert as usually they are meant to jump out and grab readers attention, overall I would not say this advert conforms to conventions of regular adverts