First Draft of Magazine Advertisement

After my initial decisions, I have created a magazine advert of my own following conventions of traditional advertisements, while trying to reflect my genre of Pop/Rock. I will explain my choices for this design below.

• Firstly I chose the image on the front of this advertisement as it correlates with the digipak's image and creates synergy between the two products. The speech bubble is a brand new image however, and although I wanted to originally use it on my digipak cover, I didn't and so I felt this would of been a good opportunity to use it here. It ties in with the comic book theme that predominantly runs through the video, digipak and now the advertisement.


• The band's logo has been included to make the advertisement recognisable to an audience.


• The background design is different to the digipak, something that challenges the conventions of an advertisement. I wanted to use a different colour purple as the magazine adverts I looked at for our genre used a darker colour.


• The font style is the same as the digipak's. This again creates synergy between the digipak and advertisement. It is the band's "signature" font making it recongisable too.


• The musical notes make an appearence here just as they do on the digipak. The musical notes are intended to be a part of the band's logo due to the name and so they felt appropriate here


• The information is structured and clear with not too much packed into the advertisement, making it simple enough to read.