RESEARCH: Magazine advert's

1. Look at the magazine adverts produced by pervious A2 students on their blogs. Which do you find most like real magazine adverts? 

I believed this one to look really legitimate as the people who created it have included all the appropriate conventions in which allows it to look relatively professional. The fade out of dark at the bottom of the advert to the light could connote coming out of danger or rising from a dark place, the bold red writing further connotes to some form of danger.

With the use of the parental advisory sticker and the use of the fade and faded writing makes it appear edgier , the legitimacy is exentuated by the streaming options.

2. Research and collect adverts for newly released albums in a number of music magazines.

I could not find any up to date magazine adverts, due to the fact that most celebrities don't use famous music magazines as a means to promote their new and upcoming albums as it is not a piece of media that many people would choose to buy or even read anymore unless particularly interested in doing so. As a result I found the following adverts from artists from  the last few years which has helped to promote their newly released albums. 

High street retailers

I went into a few high street retailers and what was evident was that Music Magazines were not as popular and there was little to none stocked in most shops that I entered. The ones I did see were mainstream ones such as rolling stones.

Target audiences:

 Different genres of music will target their audiences differently as each target audience will be different and will vary in interests ect.

E.G. One Direction will have a predominantly fan base of young/teenage females , therefore their marketing campaigns and album covers may include things that that specific group would be interested in.

But in Regards to genre they may portray themselves in a certain way, E.G. a rock band may have dark colours and heavy images in order to convey what genre of music they produce.