Final Magazine Advert

George Watkins

This is my final magazine advert which is the same as my third rough cut as I have made no improvements as my feedback from my third draft of my magazine advert suggested that no improvements could be made to effect the appearance and quality of the magazine advert.


To summarise on my magazine advert as you can see the main colours used on the poster are black, white and grey, the reason I have chosen these colours is because these are common colours used by The 1975 who are the band that we are using for inspiration when designing our media products and also our music video as we have made our music video to the song 'A Change of Heart' which is by The 1975, which you can see at the top of the poster as I have put into bold text the name of the band and the name of the song that I am promoting in this magazine advert.


As for some of the logo's at the bottom of the poster I have decided to include the record logo that we made in our group '25 records' to help promote our record label, I also have the iTunes logo to show the public where they can buy/ download the song/ album. I also have 4 social media account logo's, the reason I have done this is to give the work a more magazine advert type feel by using these logo's to promote the bands social media accounts and inform the public that they can follow the band on social medias such as Twitter and Facebook. Continuing on down the bottom of the poster I also have two 5 star ratings from newspapers as I have seen this used on magazine adverts I have seen when researching music magazine adverts and thought it would be a good feature to include to make my work stand out as an advert. Also I included a small bit of text down the bottom reading 'song available for download now' just simply to inform people that they can download the song and do not have to wait for a release date.


Finally the image used on my magazine advert which I changed the colour to from its natural colour to a black and white image, however the image which is my own did not have much relation to the music video so I added in figures of a man and a woman facing away from each other looking as if they are purposely ignoring one another, the reason I have added the figures in was to link the magazine advert to the music video as in our music video the main characters are a man and a woman who have a brief tale of love before falling out due to a secret being uncovered.


another few improvements I made were to make all logos in line which I have done however I have not put our record label logo in line with these logos as I want it to stand out and also make the size of the newspaper reviews bigger which I have also addressed.