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research of magazine album adverts.

Here is a picture of Gwen Stefani's album magazine advert. The first thing i noticed was that the main picture is taken from the album picture and cropped slightly. This works well as the colours and style match the album artwork. The texture is a paint type texture and enhances the colours. I also think that the texture is made to look make believe along with the crown and the chair, as its obvious than Gwen is not the queen. The font is very significant in that it is particular to the artist. and uses the same theme throughout. The colour of the writing matches the colour of the chair in which Gwen Sefani is sitting in. Also the border around the picture is the same colour. This draws the image in.

The colours also signify royalty as do the crown and stick she is holding. This is to promote the artist as a royal performance. The red lipstick she is wearing signifies a dominant womanly person. Here is Ellie Goldings album cover and album advert. As you can see the album cover is the main image on the advert. This is the same as gwen stefani's therefore a conventional theme. The album is called "lights" and the title has a lumounus effect. This is a direct link to the title. The glittery effect exhaugerates the title. This also gives a magical apeal to the picture enhancing the hair and drawing attention to the main image. The picture also has black fade down towards the bottom of the picture. This is simular to Gwen Stefani's album advert above however this one is black not white. This is also another conventional code of album adverts. The smaller text at the bottom is the details of the promotion of the album, from brand names such as Q magazine. This is essential on an advert as it attracts the reader to buy the album.

Ancillary 2 magazine advert of album

I have added some changes, I have made "Jamilla" bigger to seperate it from the quite as its the artists name. I have also made the quite smaller and added a name of a magazine underneath "NME"

here are my templates of a magazine album advert. I wanted to keep my magazine advert simple but affctive. I have chosen a dark lighting to emphasize the light background. I placed the artist in an uplifting position to show a 'breakthrough' in music. The lightint emphasizes this. I decided that the cd cover on the picture didnt work as it looked out of place, a simple quite and name i found more effective.

Here is my first attempt, the lighting is low to create an impact of breaking free. Im not sure i like the CD cover as it doesnt match with the other tones.

my cd cover

Here are my final copies of my front middle and back cover of my cd cover. I have decided to use a range of tones and colours to indicate a diverse album.

front cover

i have experimented using different pictures for my front cover to see if this creates a more desirable affect

template of backcovers

Here I tried using this picture as a back cover with the track list on. I think that the lighting in this picture is a good effect and matches the first shot from my music video.
However im not sure that the track list goes well with it.

I have used this image as i think that the positioning enables the tracks to fit onto the back cover. The colour is to create a traditional feminine feel.

cd backcover analysis