My Magazine Advert

This is my final Magazine Advert.

My digipack

This is my final digipack piece.

Taking photos

I took some photos on Wednesday and tried to place them on my digipack. I discovered that the backgrounds of each image were all very different and clashed when all placed on the digipack.

Therefore I will be re-shooting my photos tonight. This time though I will be shooting the instruments against a white background and therefore I can change the colour, or keep it white, of the background on the digipack panels.

My audience responses

This comment was for my front cover.

This person has suggested darker colours. I will not be doing this as I want the child-like theme of the digipack to come across strongly as the target audience are young. I am glad that this person mentioned the idea reminding them of The Wombats and Two Door Cinema Club as they are very Indie-Pop.

This comment was on my back cover.

This comment was added AFTER I created the Photoshop draft and so I will need to see whether this person has changed their mind when seeing that I have placed the song titles on both sides of the panel.

This comment was on my left hand panel.

I am glad that this person likes the idea of the digipack being bright as this was my idea from the very start of the planning process.

And finally,

I am encouraged by these comments.

I have created this using internet images on a Photoshop digipack template. I have done this to try and see what positions the images look best in. More importantly though, I did this to try out different fonts for the band title and song titles. 

I have uploaded this onto my Facebook group to see what they think about it.

Instruments

I have acquired all of the toy instruments that I need to photograph for my digipack. However, because I could not find a toy drum kit for the front cover, I am using a children's CD player instead.

Also, I have had the idea of making the background of the digipack in black and white and having the toy instruments in colour only. I will post this on my Facebook page to see what my target audience think about it.

Print advert

This is my first draft of how I want my magazine advert to look like.

• Large image of artist with guitar in a photo frame; showing that the instrument and the performance is key to this band. The frame is situated on the left hand side so that it is aesthetically pleasing. The frame could suggest voyeurism as she is female and entrapped in the frame; more of a mainstream convention.
• Record label at the bottom; typical of all adverts.
• The advert consists of many established music magazines praising the band and the single.