Analysis of a magazine advert;

I am going to research and analysis three magazine adverts that are advertising an album of the same genre as mine. This will give me some inspiration for creating my own advert. The advert not only has to appeal to the target audience but need to be striking and enticing so that they would want to buy the album.

Usual conventions of magazine adverts;

•Record label
•Pictures of the artist
•Website
•Name of Artist
•Name of the song/artist
•Logo's e.g. Itunes
•Release date

This magazine advert is for Tinie Tempah's album Disc-overy. As Tinie Tempah is the former artist of the song I chose I thought it would be worthwhile to analyse one of his magazine adverts. Firstly his composition shows him to be central to the advert and he is also looking at the camera, which again shows how confident and cool he is. This also draws people in as it looks like he is looking at you. He has a very stern look on his face which lets the on lookers know that he is very serious about his music and career and also how sleek and confident he is. There is special effects used to make it look like he is holding a whole city in his hands. This is almost symbolic and reminds me of a god like figure as it makes him look like he is in charge of the whole world and has it in his hands metaphorically. The background of the magazine advert is very dark and mysterious, and he is lit up and bright and almost sparkling, this conveys the message of dimonds and money whilst having an element of mystery.