Secondary Task: What my research shows

My research into similar media texts has shown me that there are a number of standard codes and conventions that are usually in place for magazine adverts advertising CDs, that will be useful when it comes to making our own poster.

The main codes and conventions:

• Name of the artist in large text and the top of the page
• Main central image, providing focus of the poster, relevant to the album, quite often the main image is the same as the front cover of the album so it is instantly recognisable
• Name of the album underneath the image in fairly large writing
• Additional infomation such as where you can buy it in smaller writing running along the bottom