Sarah Biswell A2 Media: Making the Magazine Advert

1) We agreed that the best idea for our magazine advert was to use the same picture on both the digi-pack and magazine advert because our research had showed this was clearly very common. However, we felt it would be more interesting and different to place the picture differently and so have put it on the left hand side, rather than the right as it is on the digi-pack. Showing a close up image of the artist also links to the research I have done on a Rihanna magazine advert which uses the same technique:

Our image

Rihanna Advert Image

However, the image was not originally this large, with a gap on the right hand side and so we had to edit it to make it bigger to fit the information on:

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2) Adding the name of the artist and song. We used the same font to incorporate synergy in the products as this will make it easy for the target market to identify as one of the artists products.

4) Adding other features to the magazine. My post called 'Magazine Advert Research' shows labelled posters which shows typical traits of magazine adverts which we felt we should include on our magazine advert.

Ratings from well known brands

The stars are ratings from a well known magazien (Q) and radio station (Radio One), reflecting their views on this album. This can be seen in many magazin adverts for example:

Date of album release

In a large font we added the date of release along with the words 'the debut' to inform the audience that it is her first album, letting them know something more about it. It is large to attract the audiences attention immediately.