Magazine Advert.

For my magazine advert, I intended to create an image that would fill half the page of a page of a magazine. This was due to audience suitability. After researching into music magazine adverts that feature in 'indie' magazines such as NME, fairly well known bands such as 'Two Door Cinema Club' normally feature in a half page adverts, where as less well known bands will be featured in a smaller space.

This is an example of how my advert would appear in a magazine. 'The Drums' are a similar band to 'Two Door Cinema Club', therefore a similar style advert would be suitable for my design. It will have to feature things such as album reviews (in this image, there are short quotes such as 'effortlessly spectacular NME 8/10. It is important to use a believable quote source, and use magazines such as 'NME' to take quotes from, to fit in with the genre and appeal to the target audience). It also features things such as the record label logo, website information, and images. All of these things will be included in my advertisement design to keep it looking professional.

For this task, I had to carry out research into A5 page dimensions to make sure that the page size was accurate for a magazine. I used the following website to acquire this information:

http://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm

I then had to enter these dimensions into Photoshop, in order to a canvas to work on that is an accurate size.

After this I begun work on my magazine advert. For this, I used the same image featured on the front cover of my digipak, so if my target audience saw the magazine advert the digipak would be easily recognisable. It also features the same font style, 'Rockwell Condensed', to continue to make the digipak and advert correspond with each other. The corner of the magazine advert features the logo for the record label 'Kitsuné', to advertise the record label as well as the band. This is a feature of many magazine adverts that I have previously seen, and therefore decided it was an important feature to have on my magazine advert. Here is my finished magazine advert: