This is a magazine cover for Plan B's album called The Defamation of Strickland Banks is a story-based soul-up volte-face about a man being wrongly sent down. 


The star image or this magazine is self centred, taking up the majority of of the page. The colour scheme is very basic which is only black, white and red. The black and white effect is very effect but very conventional for this type of genre. This advert is very detailed, it's consists of websites, the album cover, awards positive album reviews. This has encouraged me to included such fine detail on mine, positive reviews will attract the audience and pre-set the listeners opinion. 


 This magazine advert is A4 size, this is due to popularity of the artist, the target audience for this advert is aimed at a very general audience, soul music can connect to many people. Therefore using a large advery would attract their attention.The key element find I find interesting from this advert is the fact it's in the soul music genre, therefore old. The black and white newspaper effect is very effect. I also find the fact that he's wearing 1950's clothes confirms the fact that they are moulding this advert around an iconic genre.  



This is an advert from the rapper Scott Mescudi, also known as KiD CuDi. His alternative sub genre of hip hop album is portrayed very unconventionally as his CD is been advertised as in the form of a move poster.


The image is very savage and the mood is also manipulated through the dark, cold murder scene. The black and red connote a very disturbing scene, reflects the dark lyrical content within the album. However the font for the artists name is made of the cosmos, this also reinforces the artist's star image which is mystery and adventure. It also reflects that the artist is intrigued by space.


Instead of a conventional advert, this wasn't advertised in a magazine. This 'poster' was advertised very much like a  film poster, in the street and on buildings. This alternative type of advertising very much reinforces the stars alternative image and expresses his creativity.


Finally this is a magazine advert from the soul-hip hop group Gnarls Barkey. Unlike the two other albums this one doesn't include the stars, but instead includes cartoons. 


The main element within this advert are the graphics used, the idea within the concept show's a mushroom cloud exploding with a vary of cartoon images varying from bombs to panthers. I feel like this explosion connotes of creativity. This reinforces the star image as the group as


This advert was found within a music magazine which took up the 2/3 of the page, the target audience this is aimed at a very broad market, therefore needs to be a very clear, eye catching image. 


The key element of this advert is the contrast between the beige back ground contrasting between the black smoke cloud and colourful cartoons. This heavy contrast between colours is very effective and I intend to use this in my print work.