Ancilliary task 2 - Creating The Magazine Advertisement

With my understanding of conventions of professional and successful, discovered with the anaysis of exising products as well as well as the exploration of different designs and layouts by sketching my initial ideas, I now have enough ideas in order to start creating my actual advertisement. However, I have decided to make a rough template for my computerised version of the advertisment so that I can have a better understanding of space and layout of my chosen design. (Below)

Creating this rough template not only allowed me to develop my sketches but also allowed me to use the picture to develop into my own design by adding more detail, different fonts, different borders and photographs. In my chosen design I have decided to add a border to the advert so that it looks quite professional whilst also making sure the advertisement details and features all stand out and attract audiences when flicking through a magazine. I have decided to try and  include as little text as possible so that it's quick and easy to read whilst also providing enough text so that the audience are informed about the product. So the only information I have included a release date at the top of the page, the name of the artist, the name of the album and a website address. Due to the fact I want my advertisement to be aesthetically pleasing, I have made the photograph the focal point of the advertisement whilst also leaving a small space at the side for the facebook and twitter icons which are advertisements in them selves, encouraging people to research the artist.

I wanted to create a sketchy, distressed look because I thought it went with oth the sinister theme of the music video and the slow, sad themes of the actual track itself and the folk, acoustic genre of the music. So I added a dark, distressed border alongside a sketchy font for all of the main information on the page. However when putting in the photographs taken for the advertisement, I decided the advert didn't look as good as I wanted and therefore turned the page landscape so that it would fit half of a magazine page.

After changing the page round and the text, I added the photograph, a website and a QR code which links to the music video itself. I think the advert looks much more professional.