Magazine Advert Analysis

Magazine Advert Codes and Conventions (ALBUM)

CODES OF A MAGAZINE ADVERT

1. Name of band/ artist and album
2. Date of album release
3. Band/artist image/ style
4. Featuring songs
5. Form of release (CD, download)
6. Either photograph or artwork as main image
7. Record company
8. Bands website – myspace /official page
9. Critical quotes, ratings
10. Set colour scheme

• The name of the album is Bass Culture 2. This was released on the 2nd of September 2012, it is UKF's 6th compilation release. It is a compilation of all different electronic music genre's all brought together. It consists of 40 different songs. This is what UKF said on their website "there is nowhere else that you will find a more diverse, emphatic and conclusive view of the best in bass music. This is essential for well versed bass heads and newcomers alike."
  
• The date of the album release is not shown, this is due to the fact that the album is already out, which is why the advert says "Out Now". You can find out from the UKF official website that it was released on the 2nd of September. Therefore the magazine must have been made post release date or on the day it was released. 

• The album is not for one artist in particular but instead a collection of artists. One of the artists is Camo & Krooked, this artist is in keeping with our genre, commercial dubstep. The album consists of many different genre's within the broad 'electronic' genre. It brings all aspects of electronic for example: dubstep, drum & bass, trance etc. This is keeping within our genre of 'commercial dubstep' or electronic.

• The album was released in a CD format and distributed into most music stores. You can order a hard CD copy of it from 4 different sites and stores for example: Amazon, HMV, Play and Asda.

• The album artwork is very simplistic, it just shows the name of the album in a wobbly font. This wobbly font portrays the style of music that the album is putting out. The genre is said to have a 'wobbly' bass line, therefore the writing fits to the style of the music.

• The record company the album is distributed from is called UKF. UKF are a well respected and known record company in the genre we are writing about.