Analysing Adverts and Posters.

 

The bands name is featured twice on this album advertisement, it is featured on the subtexts of the advertisement and it is also displayed on the illustration of the main image which is the album cover. This is bigger than the rest of the text on the page as it wants to grab the audiences attention and it also shows the audience the album cover so that when they go out to buy it they can easily recognize it from looking at the advertisement.

The release date for the album is a key feature for album advertisements as it is important that the audience know when the album is released and available to buy in order for the band a companies to make profit. the advertisement is published before the album is available so that the audience have something to look forward and count down if they may for the albums release.

The text "Neighborhoods" is the name of the album and it also relates well with the main image of the album cover as the album cover looks like a small neighborhood. Usually most album covers and album names relate with each other and this is a typical convention for the media products. All the text on this album advertisement is in capital letters which connotes that they are trying to grab the audiences attention by in a sense "shouting" at the audience with the text as usually capital letters in texts are to grab your attention and in this case they are doing the same by making the audience aware, also by using capital letters for the text it shows that this is very important to know that blink 182's new album is coming out. The advertisement poster includes the text "featuring "up all night"" which is the song blink released off this album first meaning that the audience could get to know and like it before the album came out and because the album features this song and the audience like it they will want to buy it because that song is included on it which they was introduced to and liked, giving them more of a reason to buy the album. At the bottom of the poster the official website for blink 182 is included so that bands can go onto the website using web 2.0 and this is included on an poster advertisement which may be featured on a magazine meaning that all media platforms are coming together and being used.

Throughout they is continuity and an established housestyle throughout for the album cover and the poster advertisement as the colours black and white have only been used throughout and the same font size has been used. The colours black and white used also relate back to the main image of the album cover which is also in black and white. These colours have broken a convention to the pop punk genre i have researched and gone against conventions which again is another convention of pop punk in its self as the genre likes to "break rules". Overall i like the layout and look this advertisement has gone for and it looks laid back which is what i expect of this genre.