Magazine Adverts.

Typical features of an magazine advert would be an image possibly relating to the artist or whatever they are advertising, followed by the title in big text font then smaller text in different colours, sizes, and layouts with additional information. The purpose is to help promote what they are advertising.

I would categorize the adverts in front of me as being from different genres such as Jay Z being an R’n’B, Jamie T, Stereophonics, and the Fratellis – indie. The Beatles and Led Zepplin are from a much older genre background.

I have chose to deconstruct Jay-Z’s advert as part of my research for my music video I am analysing R’n’B. The advert is very clear and noticeable to the audience. As you can see the title of the artist is in big, bold and black font which will catch the readers eye, followed by the title of the album directly underneath the artist in normal font, and a smaller size font saying the date and other key information. I can tell that the potentional target audience is for an R’n’B genre in particular due to the images of different music objects used, and Jay-Z being a important artist to the R’n’B genre with his name being big, bold and at the very top of the advert.