Magazine Advert

First Draft Of My Magazine Advert 

This is my first draft for our groups magazine advert. In this, I used a variety of fonts as it helps certain words to stand out, such as CLOSURE and OUT NOW; which are the main focus in the advert after the band image portrayed in the photograph. 

I also like the font for OUT NOW as it is bold and clear as well as the typography, as it uses simple words which would be appealing to our teenage audience.

A criticism would be that CHIC, it is hard to be seen, when it should have been clear, in order for our audience to notice it straight away, as we are not yet an established band.

The different sizes of fonts are also a great way to make certain words stand out more than others. 

The use of colour relates well to our genre convention, as they bright and represent youth and fun which are also the key feature that we want to portray as a band. 

I think that by including the album cover helps to input in our band awareness as it displays the product that we are selling after us.

To create further CHIC's band awareness I included the bands website were the audience can learn more about them, their life-style and personalities as it also is a great place to market our music video, after websites such as YouTube. 

To improve this advert, I believe that I should have worked more on the fonts as in this way the advert looks untidy, although a variety of fonts work well by making the advert more interesting.

In my second draft I will change the background, trying to make it less plain and boring. I will also include some glowing effects to help certain words to stand out further. Although I will still include our album cover at the right bottom of the poster and also the font for OUT NOW as I believe are very effective.
This advert which was created by me, it is my second and final draft. I decided to go for a more dark advert as I thought related better to the music video we are producing. Although the colours such as white and red, brightens up the poster relating it more to who we are as artists, girly and young, as well as in contrast with the dark background it helps the typography stands out better.
A criticism for this advert would be the font for CHIC I believe doesn't fit in perfectly with the rest of the poster, although it is the same to the one on the album cover. What can be improved in this advert are the graffiti; I like the idea, but it could have been styled differently to make it more appealing. An other thing is the white outlining on the photograph; this could have been better if it maybe was a glow, as it would have blended the image better with the album cover on the bottom right.
Something that I could improve is by moving the writing ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD slightly down, as at the moment it looks to crammed up.
What I do like in this advert is the font I used for CLOSURE, as it is simple, but at the same time eye-catching and it relates well to our dance genre convention with the colours black and gold.
I also like, how the poster and album cover are very similar, as they both use similar colours and fonts helping to establish the group.
The typography is really simple and clear which would appeal to our target audience, as well as the information at the bottom which states out web and twitter page.

After asking my group members their opinion I decided to putforward the second draft as it related better to our song choice and genre characteristics.
The black and gold contrasting which I have used in my second draft, depicts luxury night out and style. These are the interests of young adults/teenagers and for this reason this advert would be more appeling to them than my first draft as it is more childish due to the use of bright colours.