Magazine Advertisement For My Chosen Genre

 

 

Above shows a picture of Plan B's magazine advertisement. I struggled to find a magazine cover of the same genre of James Blunt however I think plan B is quite similar due to both of the artists sing quite soulful.

 

When you look at this music advertisement you the main thing you will notice is the black and white effect with the big red writing saying the artists name. I think they chose to use this black and white effect as it can connote that it is quite old. Plan B has a style in which he is in the past and performs maybe in the 1980's and is very soulful. This whole effect gives the audience an idea of what genre Plan B is.  On top of this is the big, bold, red font. This really stands out on the page and this is because they will want to show the audience looking at this cover who this artist is and shows his importance.

 

As you look closer into this music advertisement, you see the big image of him in performance shot holding an old styled microphone. This again backs up my point about this particular artists theme and style of living in the past. It is a close up used on the artist so audiences can recognise his face and know who he is however I noticed the microphone was in the centre of the advertisement and I think this might have been used to connote that music is the main part of his life and it is more important than he is and he relies on making music.

 

Below this then shows the ratings that the newspapers have gave him which shows his achievements and again shows the audience that he is good and they should buy his album. Magazine advertisements are a tool to help sell a media product so they have to show audiences how good the audiences how good he is in order to sell. 

There is also a picture of Plan B in the bottom corner of the page showing him sitting down outside a club with his head held down. You can see his characters name in big writing and this picture shows maybe that he is upset or there is things not going well in his life currently and that's what he might be singing about.

I think this magazine advertisement is good because he has left it quite simple and this goes with the genre of the artist. Although it is simple, he has got everything there that needs to be.