Advert Analysis- Kate Nash

The magazine advert for Kate Nash's "Made of Bricks" album features the image from her album cover and some promotional information.
The image shows the artist in a long shot on a path leading to a house. This house and the rest of the setting is a visual effect and has been super-imposed during the editing stage. However, this gives us a rich environment that we can comment on.
The two floor house takes up the majority of the image and depicts an upper class detached property with its own garden. It has been painted yellow and has a white porch and white shutters for the windows. The garden has neatly trimmed bushes in the shape of horses. All this visually represents the idea of a perfect relationship. The album title "Made of Bricks" could be interpreted as a relationship being built with true emotions without cheating, lying or falseness. The fact that the most popular single on the album is called "Foundations" emphasises this argument and also relates to the structure of the house or relationship.

Nash is wearing a long red dress and high heels. This combines the connotations of the colour of the dress (love, passion, fire) and those of high heels- height, power and dominance. The use of costume promotes the artist as a solo but powerful female artist. Despite this, she is proportionally smaller than the house in the background. This could represent her not being ready to take on such a large responsibility of a relationship and future implementations such as children.
Finally, the advert's promotional information features at the top of the advert. This is good as it is often he first thing a viewer will see or read. The largest text is the artist's name followed by the album title and release date, followed by a review in bold. Once again we see the artist's name being featured in a different font then the rest of the text present- a logo for an artist and a convention used across the music industry. This font has been stylised to look handwritten but with someone with basic literacy skills such as a child. To some extent, this could be taken as a metaphor for the beginning of her career as she grows and develops much alike a child's writing skills.