Friday 6 January 2017

Magazine Album Advert Analysis

All Time Low 'Nothing Personal' Kerrang Magazine Advert
  • Artist name large font, centre, top of the page
  • Social media link in a smaller font underneath the band name
  • Album name highlighted in contrasting colour to the background and other text
  • Album name in a smaller font to the band name with a more simple font of the date of release centrally beneath that
  • Iconography, featuring band members, outlined with they yellow colour scheme
  • Album cover also displayed small, next to band members
  • The advert follows the same aesthetic of the album cover, yellow, album name with the same yellow highlight and the band have the same font and relatively same size font compared to album name
  • Contains record label twice
  • Also has the store where you can buy the album, with extra information of a digital download
Biffy Clyro 'Mountains' Kerrang Magazine Advert

  • The magazine advert is identical to the album artwork
  • Band name and album name font made much larger and placed in the lower half of the advert
  • Font size appears to be in descending order, all having a cold blue and white colour scheme
  • Information for date of release
  • Information about contents of what you will receive when buying the album
  • Band website
  • At the bottom of the advert is their record label '14th Floor'


Moose Blood 'Blush' Social Media Promotional Tour and Album Advert
I was unable to find a magazine advert for Moose Blood's most current album 'Blush' online. However, I have found this promotional UK & Europe Tour that also promotes their album. I can at least take inspiration from the aesthetic of the band.
  • The scheme is constant throughout, sticking to black and white, pastel pink and baby blue.
  • Band name in hollow, capitalised, italic font
  • Split the band name with pastel pink line and baby blue stars, contrasting with the white fonts for the other band names
  • Back to the pastel pink on a black background, split the different dates with the different colours. (Europe in pink, UK in blue)
  • Band website underneath all the dates, following colour scheme
  • Record label and production companies beneath the sign
  • Actual album advertisement bottom right with the name of the album in the same font as the band name, date of release smaller underneath
  • The whole advert is very Americanised with that American aesthetic, can be seen with the 60's American Diner-esque sign that it has been made to look like.
  • The actual image behind the sign appears to have been taken in L.A, California.

The 1975 'I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It' Promotional Image - 'Somebody Else'
The 1975 'I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It' Promotional Image - 'This Must Be My Dream'
 This is not a magazine advert, however I would like to take inspiration from this. I would like to have teaser advertisements for the album by having songs from the album displayed with my own photography. Although, neon lighting would be extremely expensive so I would have it digitally imposed onto my photography. The photography may be still images from the video, or simply photos of locations within the video.

No comments:

Post a Comment