magazine advert analysis

As you can see from the magazine advert, the name of the artist is Ed Sheeran, although above it does not say the name of this album, however it is his debut album and it says this in the advert.
The date of the release of this particular album was the 14th of September 2011 and the advert says that it is available to purchase from HMV, a leading music retailers and it is also available to download from Itunes. This advert also tells the reader that the album is priced at £7.99.
The advert doesn't tell the reader what songs the album contains, but this could have been an early advertisement, a form of a teaser advertisement to the target audience.
This album is available to buy in the form of CD and it is downloadable. By doing this, this makes the album much more available, in order to increase revenue.
On this particular advert, the image is a photograph that has been digitally edited. The way they have edited this has been done in very promotional way, they know that an icon of Ed Sheeran is his bright ginger hair. They have discoloured everything in the image but his hair, and they have also put his name in this colour to promote this particular icon.
Underneath the information on the album release, there is the record company's logo. This is fairly important to this advertisement, because at the time Ed Sheeran was going to be an upcoming artist so the record company are obviously going to show themselves as Sheeran's representative.
Critic's quotes have been used on the advertisement, The Times labelled it "Best album of the year." and The sun also labelled, "Simply brilliant." If this advert is seen by any member of the potential target audience, they will see what these two national media giants have labelled the album, most people will respect this opinion and will be intrigued into this album.
The set colour scheme is fairly basic, the majority of the colour is either kept plain or dark, except for (as I mentioned earlier) the colour of Sheeran's hair and the same colour for the promotion of his name on the album.