Magazine Advert Research

In order to research for my Magazine advert, I used google to find a range of different magazine music adverts from a variety of artists.
They are all very different, and have their own unique themes and images. As you can see from all of the adverts, they are all enlarged/elongated images of the album cover of the artist. This highlights the need to make a clear link between the CD and the advert.



Another thing that I noticed, was the only advert with the artist on the front was the Lana Del Rey one. She is front and centre in the shot, just like on her album cover, and this makes it clear that she is the artist. However the other three have interesting images on the front, which draw people's attention.




They all also have extremely bold font, that again helps to catch the attention of the public and instantly sell the music through the use of the artists name and their clear and established brand.



I really like all of these adverts and I am going to try and include some of these features in my own advert. I am going to use the album cover (or an image from the music video) as the main image in the advert, but without the use of the artist in my ad. I want to carry on with the theme of Polly just being a voice, and have the girl in the music video as the face of this CD.

Planning: Album Cover

This is my initial cover idea, I want the girl in the music video to be shooting the paint cannon around her, with the title of the album hidden in the smoke. I really like this idea, and think it will go really well with the music video and the colour scheme.

Analysing an Album Cover

I decided to look at the album cover for Halsey's Badlands album. I chose this cover because of the pink and blue colour scheme. I really like the way the the bright blue turquoise contrast with the light baby pink and how there are actually only two colours in the entire cover.

I also really like the contrast between the harsh rock in the background and the soft float material of the coat that she is wearing. I also really like the way the outside frame of the cover is like ripped paper or a type of Polaroid frame. 

When making my own album cover I am going to use the blue and pink colours, I also really like the bold font that has been used also. I want to try to incorporate the boldness in my font and the lightness through the use of the colours.