Magazine Advert

This an idea for our magazine advert, we have kept the red and black colour scheme which keeps the link evident throughout all of the print products and some parts of the music video. We used some shop logos which make it look professional, this shows the audience where they will be able to find the album. We used the front cover of the digi-pak on the album which will make the audience familiar with what the cover looks like so they can buy the album. We felt like there was too much red and black and that we couldnt see the difference between the background and the album cover, as they sort of merged together; to overcome this we added a red glow around the album cover which gives a good effect. The magazine advert title is the same typography as the one that we have used previously in our other products, we have used this as it is the font that the real band use and also gives a good effect. The writing we have used for the information is white and simple which allows the audience to read it easily and get the information they need. We have used ratings from Q magazine etc which will influence the audience into buying the album as it suggests that the album is good. After adding the image of the album cover we felt like we needed something else to break up the things on the page, we thought of adding in an inverted cross which adds a supernatural feel which links with the bands genre. We used quite a few effects on the cross to reduce the saturation of it and add a sense of transparency. We also did this with the pentagram, we feel that these look good on our advert. We are going to try a white glow around the album cover which may break up the red and black and compliment the white writing but we arent sure and will post the advert with a white glow on my blog and then decide which one we will use for our final advert.