Magazine Draft 3

George Watkins

I haven't made many changes to my magazine advert from my 2nd draft however I have made one slight change as one highly recommended improvement suggested to me was to try and relate the magazine advert to the music video as it didn't relate to the music video at all in terms of the images or text used other than the black and white colour scheme as we use black and white clips in our music video for flashbacks. To address this problem I have carefully edited in a male and a female figure and changed the colour of them to a solid black so they fit in with the colour scheme of the advert, the reason for me adding these figures in was because in our music video we have a male and a female character who are the main characters seen within the video. The reason for the man and woman standing back to back seeming as if they are ignoring each other also relates to a scene in the music video when the woman finds out the man is cheating on his girlfriend with her and she gets very angry and leaves the pub disgusted with the male character.

Billy Parker

This is my final magazine advert design. It has changed from my original idea in a few way, including changing the background from black to a pink sky. I chose this because I wanted to have a way to link the magazine and digipak and so I thought a good way to do this would be to use the same style images in the background on both. This is better than using black because if I used black it would be too similar to the band's actual work. The pink also is very feminine which is suitable for the album and also the character in our work.

I also have changed the centre image to black and white because not only is it a reference to the band themselves but also I think it contrasts nicely with the pink. The black and white can also be seen in our video as well as the photo is a scene in the video so the audience can relate all of the products together nicely. The black and white male praying is also a visual from my favourite music video 'Energy' by Drake and so shows influences from other medias, and possibly could attract the more mainstream audiences for young adults (Which I found out is the audience in my Drake - Audience Profile)

I also made the band's name larger because I thought my other magazine rough cuts seemed a bit too bottom heavy, and due to the nature of the album having such a long name there is not much I could change underneath, so I decided to make the band name bigger to try to even it out. Also I believe having the band name larger would jump out to audiences more and would attract a wider audience for the band.

I also changed the use of speech marks to forward and backward slashes, which is something the band used to use and so I wanted to make the magazine advert more recognisable to the fans of the band.