Album Advert Research

The album advert for A N N A in NME displays the album's front cover artwork with album information and tour information on a black box underneath the cover. There are 3 main colours being used, black, white and grey with some red covering dates which are sold out on their tour. In the bottom right there looks to be a record company symbol. We want to create something similar to this colour scheme so that the colours are enough to draw the attention of the reader, but not too many so that the reader doesn't know what to focus on.

The album advert for Holy Fire has the album's front cover artwork cropped down to fit on a rectangular sheet rather than a digipak. The title is in big bold font and the information is clear and in one colour. There is also a short quote from a review central. Again, there are 3 main colours being used. I liked the imagery and placement of text on this album advert and also the way that the artist and album name are separated

The album advert for Ritual uses only black and white, this portrays the band's image as indie. Most of the background is black but a section at the bottom is a photograph of the band performing live. The title of the album is in clear bold font and so are the review quotes. The use of a underscore line is used to separate the title, the quotes and the tour dates and as i said before this is what i liked about these adverts.

The album advert for MYLOXYLOTO has the album's cover artwork on the front cropped to size. The release information is quite small and the imagery dominates the advert. We didn't particularly like this advert as it was slightly unclear and the focus was on too many other elements rather than the name of the new album.

The album advert for Black & White America has 3 main colours, black, white and red. The album cover art is in the middle of the page with information underneath in small text. The featuring singles are in bigger text and there are record company logos near the bottom. I also liked the font used within this advert as it was unique to the artist. This layout of the advert was my favourite and i felt that i wanted to incorporate this layout into our advert.

I also added Given To The Wild to our magazine inspiration. This advert again adds to the clour scheme mentioned before with 3 main colours. This advert allows the reader to focus on the name of the band because of the huge text and main focus directed to the artist's name. I also liked the abstract style photography that they have used and we may use this somewhere is in our digipak.

In Neighborhoods both images also contain logos and font which can be directly linked to the band throughout their career as they are both established artists and fans will recognise what to look for in that band. I particularly liked how the simplicity of the layout goes well with the intracate design of the album cover.