Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Rachel's Magazine Advert

 

A large image of Gwen Stefani is used to dominate the majority of this advert, The image denotes her sat in a throne like chair holding a crown and a cane, portraying royalty and high class status. The scale of the image is to represent her personae as a strong female character. The image uses complementary colours and tones within it, A lot of yellow and golds are used to connote how royalty is portrayed in this image, showing wealth and a stronger upper class working category. The style of the image is very abstract and has the effect that it has been painted opposed to a straight photograph has been taken. The painted effect makes the image look out of focus , however Gwen Stefani's face is in a stronger focus then the rest of the image, to create the effect of a shallow focus. Her lips in the image are very detailed and highlighted with red lip stick this connotes that she is portrayed as a typical female with strong characteristics. A smaller image is positioned in the bottom left hand corner to show the overall look of the album so that it is not just the face of the artist that is trying to be sold within this advert it is the actual branded album product that is been sold as the intention of this advert.
The text that is used on this advert has a very bold and flamboyant, to emphasise on the class that this advert is trying to portray. Bold gold text ' Gwen Stefani' is positioned three quarters of the way down the page. This positioning has been carefully selected so that it does not take any focus away from her identity, but still informs the audience who the poster is advertising. Using the colour gold and making to font bold , again emphasises on the royal vibe that is been portrayed with in this advert and Gwen Stefani's personal style. Text in the same font and style is used in a smaller contexts underneath the bold heading to inform the audience and her new album. One of her song titles 'Rich girl' is positioned on the lower end of the advert, this is effective because natural our eyes look top to bottom , so because of this we can look at the advert from the top downwards and get a feel for what it is trying to portray and sell to us as an audience before we are even given a literal insight.
The image and the text have a strong relationship with each other as the image is portraying wealth, status class and royalty the text anchorage's this by complimenting the way it represented to create an effective composition to show royalty as an overall outcome. It creates a wealthy personae about this advertisement suggesting that her choice in pop music genre is focused around wealth and status as issues in her songs, this is emphasised my the song ' Rich Girl'.
The iconography of this artist represents her genre well as she is portraying an image of wealth and royalty of status, meaning she has had to work hard to get there to achieve her popularity of the pop genre. It also signifies to the target audience that hard work gets you where you want to be so she is portraying a good successful self image to her audience which makes her icon more popular in the media.

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