Analysis of advertisements

In order to create an advertisement for my piece, I first had to analyse real adverts that were really out there in the real world.

 This is the infamous poster from The Beatles album Abbey Road. This poster has become very iconic over time and is highly recognisable today. The picture is taken from the front of the album cover. To have an image recognised so globablly through generations is a great achievment.

However, this poster doesn't have any specifications on it at all. From this poster we are unaware of what we are even looking at. While this worked for The Beatles who like my artist are both from britain and would fit into a similar sounding 'pop culture' genre, they were known at the time. A poster like this would not be suitable for my artist, as she is currently unknown.

This advertisement was found in a magazine and is for The Killers album Day and Age. This advertisement offers more than that of The Beatles as it gives the reader more information if they haven't heard of The killers before. for example it clearly states that this is the new album for The Killers and that it will feature a hit single which was earlier released called Human. This advertisement also contains a website in small print which allows for the audience to search around for more information on this album.

This band is like my artist as they both would be considered within the indi/pop genre.

This is a billboard image advertising Jack Johnson's new album To The Sea. In my opinion this is the best of all the advertisements I reviewed as it portrays key information. The name of the artist and the title of the album is written in a large, clear font. Also, included on this advertisement that was not included in the others is a date that the album will be coming out on, May 31st. The imagery and the choice of blue colours is associated with that of the albums name, the sea.

This artist is similar to my artist as they are both solo singers who are not part of a band, they also sing folk, which is the genre of my artists main single.