Magazine Advert

Magazine Advert Moodboard

Storyboard

As part of our planning, we made a storyboard of some of the key shots which we wanted to include in our music video. This helped us to consider shot types and composition whilst we were filming.

Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Magazine advert - work in progress

This is a rough design of my magazine advert design. I have followed conventions by integrating the main image from my digipak design,which is a close-up of the artist to promote her brand, like on the adverts for albums by Jessie J and Lana Del Rey. Also like the advert for Lana Del Rey's album, I have included text in a large sans serif font at the top of the advert which shows the artist's name. This is white so that it stands out from the black background and I chose a sans serif font because this has a more contemporary look so could be more appealing to my younger teenage audience. Other text which I have included like in the adverts for Jessie J and Lana Del Rey is a website address to encourage further engagement from the audience. This is in a dark red colour which matches the lipstick worn in the image on the advert, to create a colour scheme. Other conventional features of adverts which I have included are the release date, a record label logo and a review.

Annotated Lyrics & Timeline

To help us plan our music video, we looked at the lyrics of our song to inspire the narrative. Splitting the song into sections of lyrics also helped us to plan the structure of our plot.

Digipak - work in progress

Front of case

Back of case (with spines)

These are rough designs of two panels of my digipak design. I have chosen a close-up image of the artist for the front cover of the CD case, with her centralised. This is conventional and could promote a sense of connection between the audience and the artist. For the back cover, I have chosen a long shot of the artist and used the rule of thirds.

I need to change the colour of the strips which mark the spines of the CD case and add text displaying the name of the artist/album. I will also add a record label logo to the back cover design to fulfill this convention. Next, I also need to design two more digipak panels - I plan to design some examples of pages from an internal booklet, containing the lyrics of the songs on the album.