Magazine 2

Here is my second attempt at creating a magazine advert for out music video which included basic elements such as my first advert. From this i have added the Facebook and twitter logos to the advert to make people aware that they can read about the song on social media websites. I also included the writing 'album out now' to get cross to viewers that they can purchase the music in the present.

magazine 1

Here is my first attempt at creating a magazine advertisement for the 'Verve' Bitter Sweet Symphony' music video we created.I have included elements such as the 'available on iTunes' icon as by looking at other magazine adverts i have seen them include symbols such as these to make people aware where they can purchase the songs and albums.from. By looking a this magazine advert it looks rather basic and does not stand out ,much to viewers which i will try to correct with my other designs.

Music magazine advertisements - skepta

Music magazine advertisements:

The use of magazine advert are used to help promote an artist and song.  These are the best ways for artists to advertise their upcoming songs and albums, as they are very popular with music fans, and it is also a very good way for new artists to get noticed, as it does not cost a lot of money to be mentioned, compared to on TV or other forms of media.

The reason this is an effective way of promoting music videos and songs etc. is that if they are interested in your specific genre will buy the magazines that you are in, therefore everyone who sees you in the magazine will be interested and want to listen to you. However, a negative factor of advertising in only magazines, is that only people who buy the magazines will see the adverts, and because things like radio and TV are a lot more popular nowadays compared to magazines, this could mean that an artist would not become as popular as they would like to be.

Adverts show similarities to things such as posters and billboards as s the main thing on the poster is the artists name or new song/album, and it takes up the majority of the space. Pictures are also used, however they are used differently compared to posters, as they are often used the background in magazines, whereas on posters, they are just put to the side or above/below the main text. Magazine advertisement also tends to be more detailed than posters, as people take more time to read a magazine articled compared to looking at a poster. Although the layout is quite different to a poster/billboard, the context is very similar as it will contain the same bits of information, only a bit more detailed in most cases. An example of this is the magazine advert of Skepta, and he is a dominant figure of the whole advert making him stand out more, and it contains more detailed information around him,

magazine advertisment plan

G324 - Plan For magazine

When designing our Magazine Advertisement our group all agreed that we liked the simplicity of The Verve's 'Love Is Noise' advert. We then took this as inspiration for our own design and created a similar poster, only we wanted it to a few clouds in a blue sky to match the band's name. Similarly we wanted to include some information along the bottom, we decided up  the website address and other websites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.


We then thought that it'd be a lot better if our Advertisements has a larger link to the music video that we are creating. So by including the two main characters of our video and another element of our music video (sunrise/sunset) there would be a continuous style.  This could also then connect to our Digipak. This is the design idea that we have decided to use for our final Magazine Advertisement.

Final Digipak

This is the final digipak that i created in which i stuck with the original them of going with the picture of the main character within out music video. I have only used the one picture for this digipak as i feel it flows better and looks more effective once folded into a digipak instead of using to different pictures and reflecting 3 different vibes. This also reflected the importance of the character within our music video.  We used these theme as it reflected aspects from both our ancillary tasks and music video. I have also used an orange brown colored theme to reflect quite an old school view which is associated with India rock music.

digipak 2

Here is my second digipak in which i have created which shows i have updated upon from my previous attempt. This digipak is much more effective as i have positioned the layout of the picture so when it is folded to together within the digipak all the panels match up together to create one picture. I have also used 2 pictures to give the inside and outside of the digipak a different view. I further used a bar code to make the digipak look more effective.

DIgipak 1

Here is my first attempt of my digipak where i included a picture from the actual footage of our clip. As you can see it shows to be very basic, as this was the first idea that I had come up with when creating a plan for my digipak. I have also used  CD to show where the it would sit within the digipak and the basic information such as the album title and songs included.