The document discusses conventions of album covers and magazine advertisements for music albums. It analyzes the album cover for the band MONA, noting the simplistic design, use of black and white photography, and hidden meanings potentially conveyed through images. It also examines example advertisements for albums by Manic Street Preachers and Green Day, highlighting common elements like release dates, purchase locations, and promotional text and imagery relating to the album art or band image.

1. Research into Digipacks of Similar Media Texts Fernando Rocha

2. Album Covers Of Similar Texts

3. Conventions of an Album Cover Few or no characters Simplistic Design & Colour Scheme Use of a different colour for the band name compared to the rest of the cover Hidden Meanings A title that will explain to the audience what the album will be about Bold, simple fonts for the band name Similar or entirely opposite font for the album title

4. Typography,Photography & Colour The typography for this album is quite obvious. The band name, ‘MONA’ is the most eye catching feature on the album and this can emphasise the fact that this is a debut album and that the band want to establish their arrival on the music scene. In terms of colour, size and style; its all very basic in terms of conventions yet it manages to dominate the album cover regardless. Moving onto the photography, this album is made up of a variety of images, it’s a collage in a way and consists of dominant images such as a lion that has caught its prey, a young boy in a soldiers uniform, two toddlers boxing amongst a few other images. This can give off the impression that the band’s lyrics have something to do with the topics and issues that are portrayed across the images and that they have put allot of emotion into it. In terms of colour, only back and white is used which in a way doesn’t enable it to be as eye catching as a multi-coloured pop album cover.

5. Magazine Adverts

6. Conventions of a Magazine Advert The release date Place of purchase Image of the DigiPak cover/logo/band symbol/prominent image Artist’s name Record Label Reviews Genre of the band reflected in text/colour/font/images Tour Info Persuasive/eye catching text & images

7. A single full page album advert for the band Manic Street Preachers Information included - Band name, album title, release date, Names of band members and other + their job roles, available formats 'CD / DELUXE 2CD / LP/ DOWNLOAD, wed address, record label, advertises Amazon.co.uk as a way to purchase the album. Band name is larger than Album title Imagery is of a professional painting by an artist- the same as album cover

8. A single full page advert for the band Green Day Basic information included - Band name, album title, available format, release date, includes - 'song title', web address. Advertises what their website has to offer Has an introductory sentence 'The wait is finally over...' Band name is larger than album title Font of band name is recognisable of their image/brand Imagery is of graffiti art - the same as album cover.