OS - Advert Analysis

This is Linkin Parks advertisement for there latest album 'A Thousand Suns'. I found this in a music magazine and decided to analyse it. First of all we look straight at the middle to see LP which is short for Linkin Park and we then follow down to see the date of the album release. The band don't give much away in this advertisement but this creates a star image of mystery and something new and modern. However they go for a misty black background which could connote something old or something that has aged. The font of there logo is also unique, as it looks almost like the Superman logo, so it looks like that of a superhero, enhancing the bands star image to be cool and a hero.

As the band didn't give too much away with this advert, they create a sense of curiousness within the audiences mind, as they have no idea what it will be like, other than it is released on the 14th of September and that they will have to wait until then. An iconic sign of this advert would most definitely be the dark colour background symbolising that this may be a new dark twisted direction for Linkin park.

The linguistic signs of the advert are the band name and the date of the the album release. Like previously stated the font is key on this advert as it creates a positive start image of them being 'heroes'.

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This is the actual album cover they released for there album 'A Thousand Suns'. As you can see again they go for a simplistic idea with just a black smudge across the cover. This connotes mystery and it seems that they are trying to give away as little as possible about the album.

The sum of all these signs for the advert come to present the band possibly being a dark rock band but other than that they don't give huge amounts of detail away. I found another poster this time on the internet of another advertisement they have done, very similar to the top advert. The only real difference in this one is that they have they linguistic sign of the album name on the advert. Again they go for there 'superhero' logo and the rest of the background is in black possibly connoting 'death' or mystery.