Magazine advert planning

I made some preliminary sketches for my magazine advert.

I originally designed to have the advert being the album cover I made but when I made it it didn't appear to me like a magazine advert.

So I then made an ad using the sketch i drew on the bottom right of the image shown at the top of the page.

I changed from my original plan slighly by giving the album a future release date and adding the pre order now part.

I then asked a fellow class mate and my course tutor for their opinion and they said that the 'Avalible in all good stores' part was to cliche so I decided to remove it and add some reviews from different newspapers and magazines and it is more effective.

Magazine advert

I have decided to take a different aproach to the magazine advert to the norm, I have decided to use a photo of the artist with the artists name and some introductory text on it and cut out a section at the bottom and put a picture of the album cover in it with some text next to it advertising the album.

I took inspireation from Adeles album 21.

This shows the artist in the full ad and it contains some introductory text and a picture of the album with infomation that it has been released and it is avalible everywhere.

I made my advert in the same style of this.

 

I took a photo of the artist, which has been edited, and in a space I put the artists name and some introductory text and at the bottom of the image I made a white section to insert the album cover and a release date and I put in some quotes from newspapers and magazines.
I added a QRcode linking to the music video on youtube, I also added facebook, twitter, youtube and spotify logos so people viewing the advert know where they and their music can be found.

Edited photos and digipack

 

I took one of the photos I had and edited it using a online photo editor I made the sky in the image brighter and the ground darker and added a warm filter to it. I also added a track list, record label, barcode and parental advisory logo to the image and I will use this as the back cover to the album.

 

 

In this image I faded the main colouring and added a filter, I have added a small black circle and a larger transparent circle to show that this is the CD sleeve in the digipack.

 

 



 

I took a photo of a large cloud in the sky and saturated the image making it brighter, then I took the paint brush tool and made it transparent and highlighting the shadows on the cloud giving it a more dynamic view, I made the album title the same font, size and colour to fit in the the style model of the black text and blue background.

 

 

I took the photo I had of the actor in the music video and edited out the 2 lamp posts in the back ground using the rubber stamp tool, I then saturated the image, increased the brightness, hue and finally alter the RGB balance the give the sky and car more colour. I put the chorus of Touch the sky on the image becuase it is the main song on the album.

 

 

I edited this photo to look like he was looking at a sunset, I did this by saturating the image and adding a orange tint to the photo, i also blured out the background so that his face stood out against the background and draws the audiences eye to him.

 

 

 

I took a picture of the sun and saturaised it and added a transpearant yellow circle to the sun to make it stand out and I added text giving details of a compotition incuding Facebook and Twitter pages. I also added small print in the bottom corner giving a website where terms and condidions to the compotiton can be found.

 

 

 

 

 

This is my finished digipack using all the pictures shown above. 

Digipack plans and chosen photos

I drew up some plans for my digipack and I decided to make the top one.

These are the Photos I have selected to use in the production of my digipack.

I have chosen these photos because I believe they represent the song touch the sky because it it about a man who wants freedom and the ability to ' Touch the sky', so I chose the photos of the open fields, sky and reaching for the sky to show the hidden meaning of the song.

 

 

 

 

 

I chosen these photos for the symbolic reference of touching the sky.

 

 

These photos are for aritst art work in the digipack.
I have chosen these photos because I believe I can edit these photos effectivly.

Photographs for album cover

Here is a selection of photos I have taken to use when I develop the digipack for my album.