Magazine Adverts

These are a few images of magazine adverts that I have researched. They are are quite simplistic, with a main image which usually corresponds directly to the digipak they are advertising, more often than not the image used is the same image used on the digipak. The name of the artist is in the largest font, to capture their audience, and the font of the text is usually the bands trademark font, or logo. There is then limited information in smaller font simply stating the name of the album, the singles included, the date it is released, sometimes there are critics opinion or tour dates at the bottom. The artists website is usually placed in the bottom corner of the poster in small text, with logos of the albums representation.

Second Website Idea

So from the first website idea of the black and white theme we changed the background to grey and the font a simplistic black and white. In addition I have changed the layout of the website, now it is more central. At the top there is a mock up of what I thought about having to show the link between the video and the website, but this image my change as it need to be more powerful. Also we made button to link to other pages. We thought that rollover button would look good on the web page as when the user moved over the button it will turn white and whatever page they are on the button will be white. To create the rollover button we made two images in Photoshop.

Magazine Adverts

The image above is from an issue of NME, a well known music magazine which our band Two Door Cinema Club is heavily associated with. I really liked the design of this advertisement, I thought it was really eye catching, and interesting, not only does it detail the realease of a debut single, but it also details a few tour dates. Below I have made a response to his magazine adertisement.

Below is another magazine advertisment I created individualy, without inspiration from another magazine advertisement.

Despite us only having to two ancillary tasks, our group decided to expand our skills onto all three of them in draft, as to make an informed decision once we have finished our project. These are two rough magazine advertisements for Two Door Cinema Club's album 'Tourist History'. We have used the photographs from the mock up digipak covers to create a clear link. Again the structure and colours are simplistic and sophisticated, playing off the stunning contrast of black and white.

Website

This is the first rough draft of our website, it links in well with the website research, as most band websites have a dark background and simplistic pale writing.

Digipak back cover mock ups

I did not find many pictures of back's of digipak album's, but the ones that I did find where incredibly simplistic, with a simple list of track list, then very small copyright detail at the bottom. So I used two photographs, in grey scale and colour (to show the different effects) as the basic background of the back cover. I used the pictures with the flower in the mouth, as the pale flower is a large and pale platform to put dark text over, and the dark hair is perfect for putting pale text on top of. The last album back cover mockup was an experimental approach, I used a number of photographs together creating a collage effect, and then used slightly transparent banners across the photographs to make the track list, and copyright details easy to read, whilst maintaining the images beneath the text.

Digipak cover mock ups

I used my original images to mock up front covers for the digipak in both colour and black. I used the simplistic text that I found online called montepetrum. The text is discreetly in the corner, and sophisticatedly simple to appeal to my target market of mainly males between the ages of 17 and 30. It has the same Alternative, artistic look of the album covers that I researched. By mocking up a few covers it gives me and my group a chance to look at potential album cover ideas, and decide what we like about my ideas, and what we don't.

Brief

For this years A2 Media project we are required to complete one of the following three briefs:

A) Create a promotion package for the release of an album, including a music promo video, together with two of the following options:
- a homepage on a website for the band;
- a cover for the release as part of the digipak (CD/DVD package);
- an advertisement for a magazine of the digipak (CD/DVD package).

B) Create a promotion package for a new film, including a teaser trailer, with two of the following options:
- a website homepage for the film;
- a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;
- a poster promoting the film.

C) Create the first level of a new computer game, together with two of the following options:
- a cover for the game's package;
- a magazine advertisement for the game ;
- a radio advertisement for the game.