Ancillary Texts: Poster Advertisements

This is a magazine poster advertisement for The Horrors album Skying. The band has used the main album cover for the image featured in the advertisement which immediatley enables the audience to acknowledge what the poster is about. The purpose of the poster is to advertise the band's new band and persuade the audience to purchase the CD. To reinforce this, the poster has a list of reliable and well known newspapers and magazines providing the star rating each company gave. All of the ratings are four star ratings which emphasises the success of the album and helps persuade the audience to feel that they would enjoy the album and benefit from buying it. The font is the same throughout the poster which is cohesive as this creates a theme that is matched to the band's theme also. Although the text is very plain as it is a simple font, the colour choice of white helps the text to make an impact within the advertisement as it stands out.




This is a magazine poster for the rock band Kings Of Leon which advertises one of their albums. The main image is the same image which is used for the featured album which instanlty makes the poster recognisable. The use of main image is highly recognisable due to its unique use of editing, the photograph is split into four equal parts which has different parts of all four band member's faces merged together to create one. However, to increase the unique ideology, an eagle's face has been embedded in the photograph also to create a montage of the eagle and the band members. The poster uses the same font for each parts of the text which