This magazine advert promotes a band's new album. It uses a black background to make the band and album names stand out in white. The advert also features an image of the lead artist wearing a visible lung on her chest, relating to the album name. These visual elements indicate the band's indie style and target younger audiences who might purchase the album digitally or on CD.
2. This magazine advert is eye catching and makes you
think. It also has the basic conventions for example
the Band’s name is written in bold at the top, which
could also be described as a logo as it is seen on
everything that is related to them. It also has the
album title written in capitals, with the release date
and the different ways it could be purchased, this
could attract many target audience, as it can be
purchased through vinyl (popular with elder
people), digital or CD (popular with younger
people).
The black background of this magazine advert
allows the band name and album name and the
other text stand out which is in white it also allows
the flowers and main artist to stand out, this will
catch the eye of the audience to the important part
of the advert.
The unique image and dark background allows us to
indicate what target audience this poster is aimed
at and it seems the band is indie as of the black
background and the unique picture of the artist
wearing a visible lung on her chest which is related
to the album name.
3. This particular magazine advert was
found in NME and the image is somewhat
similar the cover of the actual album this
may be so they can easily identify the
album and remember the image.
The album title and the band name is
what takes up most of the advert along
with the main image of the artist as this
will attract the most attention from the
audience as her pose and direct look in to
the camera can be seen as engaging with
the audience and relating however it can
also be seen as seductive which can
attract the male audience. In the bottom
corner is an image of the artwork of the
single to also encourage viewers to buy
the new single which has it’s own logo as
seen in pink at the bottom.
The advert also gives a feminine touch
due to the pastel and pink colours and
the flower background which could also
be seen as vintage.