Advertisement

I've been looking at some music advertisements in music magazines for inspiration for our advert. Some conventions are:

• The title/band name quite big and eye catching
• The band's logo
• Having a small picture of the actual album in the bottom left hand corner of the poster
• Same album and advert image - not always but quite common
• The band's website(s)
• The release date
• A short review from a magazine/critic/radio station

Poster

Album

For our advertisement we would want a picture that is cohesive exactly with the video and also the CD front cover. We've decided that a big possibility for our advertisement would be a picture of the mask because of how much we see it in the music video so it's certainly a motif! For example Dizzee Rascal's album Tongue N Cheek is cohesive with his poster/advert as it's the same image and you can definitely recognise that it's his. Also, the Gorillaz use the same technique as their CD cover and Poster link too. We're making the front cover of the CD a photograph of the mask so we need a different picture. It can be of the mask but it needs to be taken from a different angle but it would still be cohesive. 

For our advert we've decided to use a font which we think relates to our band as it's quite gothic looking. The image we've used for our poster is one of the mask but it's different to the one we want to use for our CD case. The one we may use for our advertisement is from a diffeent angle so you can see all of the mask which is effective for us because then it's more eye catching and visually stimulating. This is the image we're thinking about using: