Magazine advert/cover Analysis

Along with our music video and creating our album cover we also have to produce a magazine advert. For this I have decided to search for some inspiration and searched for hip hop and some rap album advert that are seen in magazines.

This is an advert is promoting Jay-Z overall as an artist which will evidently promote his music. Jay-Z is on the front cover of the magazine and has a a long shot taken of the artist and has been placed in the centre of the magazine among a city but the proportion is off scale because the artist is much bigger than the skyscrapers also seen on the cover which help make the artist seem superior. The colour scheme used for this advert is mostly in black and white and the only colours that are vibrant is the artist and the magazine name and the artist name making those specifically stand out to catch the audience's attention. The cover also has subtitles in black and on the left and right hand side of the page. On the right we can also see another page that promotes the artist and the album. It is a image of many music equipment such as stereos and speaker etc. the artist name at the top of the page this time in black and at the bottom of the page underneath the image.

This is more of a page in a magazine to promote the new album that this artist has released. This advert has the artist at the focus of the advert. The advert also has him on facing away from the audience with a retro background that is more artistic than others. It has the name of the artist 'Wretch 32" and the album name on labels like font with a black background and a white font. the colour scheme are mostly blues light a dark blues. What I have noticed about this advert is the fact that the it has logo at the bottom right side of the places/store where the album can be purchased from and that on the left hand side it has the album cover which is something we will want on our advert because we are specifically promoting the album.

This is another advert but i think that this one is on a website because of the fact that it has click to download but the presentation and the layout of the advert is what I am looking at and i really like the fact that advert is similar to the album cover and that they follow the sam colour scheme of electric blue and black with red dashes also included. This advert like other has the same kind of layout with the artist name and the album name too is much bigger font and writing than other information such as the other artist the album is featuring.

 This is a magazine cover of the original artist with one of his song and they have kept it simple and have managed to have the artist sat  down making the artist come off more relaxed more chilled about the promotion. The artist Drake is wearing a silver shirt with white jeans and a black belt. The costume of the artist flows really well with the magazine scheme of the light blue, grey and black writing. Again in this cover the artist is looking straight at the audience and this is made to captivate the audience eye.

Below are some images of how we are going to try and plan out our advert we are going to be producing so we have planned to have a photo of Ahsan and then either below or underneath we will have the main information.

Artist name: Colt

Album name: Black Reign

Release date: 08.08.2014

Featuring artist: Romeo and Target