Thursday 13 October 2016

CD cover, Ad and Music Video Analysis


Image result for simple plan cd coverImage result for simple plan front cover magazineIn this post I’ll be identifying the similarities that musicians/bands use in magazines, CD covers and music videos to present themselves; here I’ve chosen the rock band simple plan. In these images here the left being a magazine cover and the other being a CD cover, the similarities are pretty obvious, they wear similar outfits which are usually rather plain or dark and the odd chequered/striped shirt. They are also  using similar poses that are usually noticed most in rock sceneries, rather a clenched fist or the known rock hand sign being two fingers at either end of your hand pointing up. The font of the titles are nearly the same, as they both have the use of making the titles look scruffy of having the look of someone that’s scribbled over parts of the title. Now comparing the CD cover and the music video “I’d Do Anything”, again they all wear similar clothing as they are in the magazine and CD cover, dark or plain, and as always they use rock hand signs, and when you watch the music video the crowd are all rather punching the air with a clenched fist or using the rock hand signal; as well as using similar hand signals they even wear similar clothing which relates to punk rock fans which the is who the type of rock band they present themselves to be. As you can see in the corner of the CD cover it states the word “crazy”, which could infer that the music will make you go “crazy”, and in the music video it shows a massive group of people trying to get into a gig, and it shows everyone going crazy in and outside the gig; to get into the gig people are doing “anything” to get which matches the title of the song, and infers how people go crazy to listen to the punk rock band Simple Plan.

By Nathan Gilbert

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