Researching Magazine Advert

I've been looking at how magazine adverts align with the album covers of artists and also the conventions of adverts.

Magazine adverts always have the release date of the album, usually in very large font. This is because it is the most important piece of information on the ad.

They also nearly always use either the same or very similar design to the album cover. This is so that customers can very quickly spot the album when they go to buy it, as it looks the same as the magazine advert. This is done both through photos or artwork and having the same fonts and colours as on the album cover. So this is something I will be looking to do, as I took a lot of photos of the artist I will be using, so I can use two photos of her in the same setting to create that link.

Another convention of magazine adverts is that they often include the website of the artist. This is so a customer can visit the website of the artist to find out more about them and that site may also have clips of songs, as well as any music videos that artist has produced. This allows a customer to decide whether they like the music of the artist before purchasing the album.