Analysing magazine

adverts

The image that has been chosen for the magazine advert is the actual album cover for the album

Lighting – A light has been used to create a shadow effect on Rihanna’s face.

Her star persona is slightly crazy being shown by the mise-en-scene make-up. She has heavy eyeliner on the top and bottom of her eyes. This shows her personality and her wildness. It also stands out as the image has been changed to a dark saturation for the darker parts of the picture and blue for the light. She also is wearing very bright lipstick, this highlights the main features of her face (lips and eyes) and so are made to look at them. (Voyeurism-one of Goodwin’s 6 points)

Artist name

Album name

Songs that are included on the album

Same image as the album cover

The album name is camouflaged in with the image of Rihanna. This is not the main thing that is setting off the album and sale of it, but the image of Rihanna and the songs that are on the album that fans may have heard as singles.

The main colours of the advert is black and blue with the use of red for some text. The red text stands out from the rest of the poster which is eye catching to anyone that looks at it. The colours used are symbolic of the genre that Rihanna works with. Nothing bright and flowery like it maybe for a pop song.

Lights album:

Simple image

Rating out of 5 stars

Ellie has very minimal makeup to show her natural state and how down to earth she is, which is also shown in her music videos.

Same image from the album

Artist name

Album name

What newspapers/magazines thought

The lighting is bright but does have some parts of her face where there are shadows. I think that artificial lighting will have been used at the right of Ellie, making the right hand side of her face stand out and the left with a shadow and not as light. Sparkle added to the image is also

in the music video ‘Starry Eyed’ which is from the album.

Starry Eyed music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBf2v4mLM8k

the top 2/3’s of the page is very sparkly and bright and the bottom 1/3 dark with the white text. The colour is not too bright and gives the image that Ellie Goulding is a laid back person and has a sparkle in her.