This document discusses key features of magazine advertisements for music albums and DVDs. It notes that advertisements usually include the artist or band name, album or DVD title, release date, cover art, where to purchase, and record company. The ads aim to engage audiences by highlighting popular songs and using bold, simple language and imagery of the album cover. Effective ads contain these essential details while keeping the wording minimal to attract readers' attention.

1. Magazine advert research notes and evaluation of existing magazine adverts

2. Key features of a magazine advertisement:The key features of magazine listed below are very important in order to promote the CD or DVD. Magazine adverts are usually easily recognisable to the particular band/artist. Band/artist name/logoAlbum/Digipak nameImage (cover art from album/digipak, original image of the artist or band/ an completely unrelated image)Release date Band/artist web address Where its available to buy (e.g. HMV)Record companyReview quotes Featured tracks (e.g. Includes Golden Touch and Somewhere Else)

3. How is the music DVD digipak/album sold to the audience; what language and imagery is used and how do the record companies persuade fans to by the product?The advertisement will usually have a “featuring” or “includes” the band/artists biggest hits or number 1 singles. Putting these big hits on the advert engages the audience attention towards wanting this album/digipakMagazine adverts are very bold and to the point, they don’t contain ‘waffle’ , so the language used is informative and basic. The imagery used is normally the album/digipak itself, this is for the simple reason the consumer will know what they are looking for when they go to buy the product

4. DVD digipak cover artDigipak special featuresRelease dateBand websiteAvailable at...I think this a really good DVD digipak advertisement. It contains the digipak cover art, the release date which is in the centre of the page, and the DVD special features.

5. The band’s name/logoRelease date ‘OUT NOW’ and format ‘CD/LP’Review quotes from newspapersFeatured tracksTour dateRecord company logo and web addressBand websiteI think this is a great example of a CD album advertisement it contains all of the key features and is very informative. The band logo in big bold lettering covers nearly half of the advertisement which catches the magazine readers attention.

6. Band nameAlbum cover artRelease date ‘OUT NOW’Band websiteIncludes...Record company logo and websiteAvailable at...The album art is the main event in this advertisement, the wording has been kept to a minimum. A striking image or the album art has been used in order to catch the readers attention.