Magazine Advertisement for the CD/DVD Package Textual Analysis 2

The album advertisement is advertising Green Day's album 'American Idiot'. This advertisement follows a convention that most other advertisements also use, which is the fact that the advertisment is simply the album cover but enlarged to fill the page. This ensures that the audience who sees this advertisement will instantly recognise the album in the shops or on the internet. This advertisement stands out as it has a plain black background with red and white font, and image, this gives the advertisement simplicity and also makes the image very clear. The font not only contrasts because of the colour change from the artist and the album name, but the artist is in all capitals whereas the album name is all in lower case. This advertisement is full of contrasts, even the picture is a juxtaposition. The fist squeezing a grenade in the shape of a heart, shows how the advertisement (and album cover, as the advertisement is the album cover, just enlarged) has been produced to provoke thought from its audience.