1st Draft of Magazine Advert

This is the first draft of my magazine advert for my subsidiary product. So far, I am really happy with the outcome of it, and I think that it looks like a suitable magazine advert for my artist. The image that I have used for this magazine advert, as it is the product that I am trying to sell. In terms of the page layout, it is very chronologically ordered. The first thing that my audience will look at is the title of my artist. I made the font the biggest on the page, as it is the artist that I am trying to sell. I used the colour pink as the title because it stands out, and also because I have that colour and the colour black running all throughout my digipak. I used some white for the fonts because I found that making them all pink looked slightly boring and plain. The white gives the audience more to look at and read. Originally, the background colour of the magazine advert was pink, and the fonts were black, but I thought that it looked a bit too girly, not representing the rock genre very well. Also, the fonts did not stand out as well as they do on the black background.

I included my label on my magazine advert, which is Sony Music, because I wanted it to look professional, and I believe that it has done very well in doing so. On other magazine adverts, I noticed that most of them included a online shop in the corner, for example Amazon and Play.com. I included one in my advert again to add to the realist look, creating verisimilitude against other products. I also found that every magazine advert advertising albums included the artists/bands website. This is due to selling purposes, promoting the product and prompting the audience to buy the album.

The ideology of my product is promoting rock and pop music, so it is presenting a rebellious type of attitude. This product, as the genre is also pop, will want their audience to perceive this album as an insight into teenage life, as does my music video, therefore appealing to my target audience. In relation to the colours of the magazine, they are there to promote the product to the girl target audience. As for the photograph of Blossom, that is appealing to both males and females, with relation to Laura Mulvey's theory, girls will look at her wishing to be like her, and men will look at her finding her attractive.

My magazine adverts would be included in magazines such as NME and Q, as these are quite indie music magazines, and also include artists such as Florence and the Machine in them, which is similar to my genre. In terms of improving my magazine advert, I feel like it looks slightly plain, for example the fonts. This advert could look better with more fonts, but not too many, as it could get overcrowded and too much to look at. But, I feel like this product does look professional and does create verisimilitude to other magazine adverts that I have looked at.