Magazine Advert Evaluation

This is my magazine advert, I have based it strongly around the design for my DVD Digipack, as I had seen that this was a strong convention of almost all magazine adverts for musical releases. This is done so that the product would be recognisable on the shop shelf. I have also included the image of the packaging for my CD and DVD Digipack (making the CD image quickly with the same logo and image with a different black and white effect on-that same as I used in the main advert image). I tried not to distort this image too much so that the musician would be recognisable to someone who had seen the music video.

I made my magazine advert in Gimp using filters and editing colours with the brightness/contrast editor and desaturate effect. I used a white paintbrush set to opacity of 50% around the edges of the CD and DVD Digipack covers to make them stand out.

I used a high contrast and low angle image photo to portray power and represent the Rock genre, I know black and white images are often used to represent acoustic artists as well, although these images are usually softer colours without the high contrast to look more natural. I think this is fine however as Nick also plays a lot of acoustic music.

I kept the text simple, using the fonts from my DVD Digipack and for other texts used a very simple plane font so that it was clear, I had seen in my research other adverts do this. I also included website addresses at the bottom and the record label logo for the same reason.