FINAL EVERYTHING

My final music video

 My final digipak with pullout

My final magazine advert

Magazine advert feedback

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3.

- I prefer three because of the selection of colours and by having the rating stars as green it looks less ''in your face'' than both one and two. -Nicole Spriggs

- I like number three because of the contrast between black and green, it doesn't look to over crowded or to bright. I dislike number 1 as the green is very bright and number 2 because of the gradient at the top. - Nikita Petralia

- I prefer magazine advert '2' as it stands out (eye catching) more because of the colours used. It is laid out neatly and professionally and matches the genre well through the use of bright green colour. It is clear what the album name and artist name is - Magazine advert 3 looks professional however it is colourless and it is hard to identify whether it is a book advert or album advert. - Romina Nejad

- I prefer the 3rd magazine advert because I like the colour scheme and the contrast between the black and green colours. The reason I don't like the 1st magazine advert is because the green writing is not as legible as the black writing. For the 2nd magazine advert I think that the green gradient does not look appealing on it. - George Schena

-I prefer 2 because of its contrast between the colour and the white. It is also eye catching because it caught my attention first.  - Jesal Joshi

- The third advertisement strikes me as the most suitable as opposed to the previous two incarnations as it has a good balance between legibility and simplicity that the others clearly don't exhibit. - Mr James

- I favour the third magazine advert mainly because it is simple and minimal. The green acts as an accent colour which is very nice. It is different to other magazine adverts but this is a good thing! - Lisha Gorasia

- I prefer number 3 as the black font is bold and eye catching. I think number 2 looks really cool but the green highlight at the top of the page distracts from the main image at the bottom, the first ad is also effective but the green writing is easily lost on the white background. - Leon Dominique

After numerous changes and reading the feedback from peers and teachers, I have decided that magazine advert number 3 is to be my final draft. I am happy with the result and think it is more legible and professional without everything written in bright green,  yet the colour scheme is still present.

Digipak and magazine advert feedback

As part of my  task for making the digipak and magazine advert, it was crucial to get feedback from people so I could build on what I had already created. Thus, I put a picture of them up on my twitter page and waited for people to write their comments.

This shows the tweet I made with the images attached.

These two screnshots show the feedback I was given, both good and bad, the good enabled me to see what I had done well, whilst the bad was constructive criticism that I could then go back and work on, so my work was the best it could be.

Magazine advert - bus sto

My magazine advert

Here is my magazine advert, as you can see, I used the same image as the front cover of my album because when I was researching magazine adverts, they usually featured the same, or slightly different from the digipak cover. Moreover, after researching into magazine adverts by different artists, I became familiar with the conventions of them. These include ratings from magazines, release date, quote, and the artist's name and album title. Similarly, I kept to the colour theme of my digipak for consistency.

Magazine Advert Conventions

• Release date (out now)
• Name of the artist
• Name of the album
• Reviews (star rating and magazine name)
• 'The brand new album'
• Artist's website
• Record label logo/website 
• 'Album of the year'
• Sometime list the editions it is available in
• Facebook/Twitter logo and link
• 'Featuring the hit single....'
• QR code
• Available at... (eg. iTunes, and include logo)

Album magazine advert

Whilst researching digipaks's I have been looking at album covers and the resemblance with the magazine adverts that they have. Some of them use the same image, whilst others slightly change it like with the theme on digipak panels.

This album cover has a strong link with the magazine advert through the style of the shot and the simplicity of the image of Adele not looking at the camera directly, with her head in a different position.

This album cover and magazine advert for Tinie Tempah also shows a strong link with the theme of stars and lights continuing in both.

Finally, Kings Of Leon have used exactly the same image for both the magazine advert and album cover. This works well as it is such a striking image that people are bound to remember.