CD Cover and Ad Analysis

Magazine Ad and CD Cover – Compare and Contrast

Green Day – 21^st Century Breakdown

This particular Green Day advert is full of colour and is made to catch your eye and draw your attention to it, it’s almost laid out as a war poster, showing that the idea of the image is that they’re fighting for something, and as there is an image of a couple on the advert itself its giving off the impression that they’re fighting for the idea of love.

The main colours on the album advert are black, red, white and yellow, the red and black to represent danger and a dark part to the album whereas the white and yellow are used to show that there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that there’s something for them to look forward to. The yellow showing happiness and the white showing purity. Each colour has an important representation of the album and the band that Green Day is, being known as Pop Punk, which means they make music for all but have meaning to the songs themselves.

On the advert its noted that it states when the CD will be released and the type of ways you are able to get a hold of this album, which includes buying it on CD as whereas downloading it digitally, this is in a different colour to most of the other writing as this could be because they want the music to stand out and the date to be remembered in hopes of attracting a new audience. They start the pattern fresh after to show what singles are now available in hopes of also attracting a new audience if they recognise the song.

The actual Green Day album isn’t much different its set out the same with the same black, red, white and yellow colours, however it doesn’t contain as much colour in the writing, the only writing on the album itself is the name of the band and the name of the album. Because this takes up most of the album cover, of people found out about the album through the advert this means they should hopefully recognise the album when it’s on sale, as a lot of the writing will stand out since its white and yellow. Because there’s such little colour it makes the album more recognisable as you do not have to remember as much.

By Danniella Chapman