Magazine Advert.

Below are the pictures of our finished magazine advert (in black and white, and colour).

To create our magazine advert, after lots of experimenting with Adobe Photoshop, we decided to use Microsoft Publisher.

Our first idea was to try and have a mirror reverse of the two main characters. This meant that we would have the girl character (me) looking in to the mirror seeing the boy character (Ryan) and vice versa. This proved to be the most difficult task to complete, as we had to try and line up the two images together and try to match the lighting on both. The images are different sizes, as we did not want a too structured layout, to reflect the song title 'Paranoia'. We feel it relates to the song and band more, especially with the tag line "Go mad for Paranoia".

For our background image, we used a previous picture taken of our film location reflected horizontally. The church is a contradiction to the character's lose of sanity.
The reflection of the church upside down is an emphasize on her life. It is an exaggeration of how her life has been turned upside down because of recent events shown in the video.

We have included 'reviews' from specialist rock magazines Q and Kerrang. At the bottom, we have also added a link to the band's actual website, further promoting the band and their music.
Like a typical promotional poster, we have also added a date which shows when the bands' album is released.

The font name we used for 'Paranoia' was 'Chiller', as we felt it added the thriller effect to the text.

Magazine Adverts.

Here are some examples of magazine adverts

that we can get inspiration and ideas from for our own magazine advert for the chosen

band My Future Lies.

This

is a good example of a magazine advert because it

has a relevant

picture of the artist and includes good reviews of her music. It shows information about her new

album and release date too.

This next example is

a variety of

bands advertising their next tours/concert dates.

However, we only want to advertise the band, not a tour date.

The advert on the right-side of this collection is a very good example. Not only does it include reviews of the artist's music; but it also has an eye-catching, unusual image to make the band stand out.

Another set of examples here; the one on the left is most eye-catching. With an unusual image which links into the name 'Massive Attack', it works pretty well as an advertisement for the artist/band.

I think this is the best example for a magazine advertisement. It includes the name of the band, their album title, a release date and reviews from relevant sources.

After much research into magazine adverts and what makes them an efficient advertisement for a band, we have come to the conclusion that this is what we need to include on our own advertisement:

- an eye-catching image,

- band name and album title,

- possibly a release date for the album,

- positive reviews from relevant sources.

FINISHED!!!

After many hours of editing that me and Nichola have spent in lessons, our own time and after school we have finally finished our music video.

It is such a relief to have finally completed it. We have had to film and edit the video at first to realise that we needed to re-film and re-edit the whole project again. With other deadlines and exams aswell this proved to be quite stressful; especially when having to restart the music video.

Me and Nichola are very happy with the end result and have now uploaded the music video up onto youtube. (This was by sharing the iMovie file onto QuickTime, then uploading and publishing it on YouTube. However the picture and sound quality of the video on YouTube and QuickTime is very poor - which is extremely disappointing since we filmed the whole project on HD cameras).