ANCILLARY TASK 2- RESEARCH INTO MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS

Before starting to create my second ancillary task, It is important for me to research into magazines and advertisements. This is important because it will allow me to see what I will need to include on the advertisement and what layout to use.

This is a magazine advertisement for Lady Gaga's new album. As this is promoting her new album, it includes the name of the album and artist, information about the album and tracks and a critical opinion regarding the album, from Rolling Stone.

There is also an image of the track itself, with keeping the continuity. The advertisement is created in black and white, which is the same as the CD album itself, representing continuity and there are clear images of the artist.

This is the album advertisement for Youmeatsix' new album, which is likely to be used in magazines to promote the album/artist.

As you can see this advertisement links directly to the album itself, by including the name of the artist, the album and continuing the continuity by using that specific image as the background (the image on the front of the album cover) showing the direct link between the two.
This advertisement has included an opinion/review on the top right hand side of the page to show how good the album is, as well as promotional logos of companies such as HMV at the bottom of the page.
Though this poster looks exciting due to the image, it is overall quite simple in regards to the text used, only including vital information.

This third advertisement is for the Killers album 'Day and Age' which is highlighted on the advertisement. This again links directly to the album itself through the image used, representing continuity. The image used is the background of the advertisement but is of a mosaic effect. This is appealing and different that a normal image.
Again, I feel that the image has the largest role in this media product, especially because there is basic and a lack of text on the advertisement.
In some ways, this is seen as more effective because by seeing this, it would be appealing to the target audience to go and purchase the album from stores.