Initial Magazine Advert Research

Magazine Adverts

To begin our ancillary task research, my group and I researched female artists who look similar to Ellie, the actress in our film and girl who will be featured on both ancillary tasks.

Until we saved these pictures we did not see the resemblance between the adverts that they all have a gold and black theme. On the three where the text can be seen, the artists name is in a large font with the name of the single beneath it in a smaller font but still obvious on the advert. The artists all look glamorous and well-presented on these products which my group we also try to do.

The top right image is a parmaore magazine advert, with the left image showing the original image. Being the band behind the song we are using for our music video, I feel that looking at Paramore's actual magazine advert will show how we can link the song genre with the ancillary tasks. The poses are quite simple and the original image has a basic background in a road and so we may use this to recreate a similar image but with our one actress rather than a band. The second picture however has clearly involved a lot of editing with a logo of a butterfly which is present throughout many of the Paramore products.

Paramore's magazine advert above is very creative and looks like a reminder board with images, the title and anicdotes about the song all stuck on with selotape. The image shows the band with more forced poses than the previous one and the photo has a colour filter making it look quite old but effectively keeps the whole advert consistant. This contrasts to the other ones I have researched as it is landscape which I think is highly effective as it could either take up half an A4 page or cover two A4 pages as a double page spread.

What do magazine adverts consist of?

Ellie Goulding Magazine Advert

Rihanna Magazine Advert