Completed Magazine Advertisement

We wanted our magazine advertisement (edited on Adobe Photoshop CS5 ) to include key information, such as: 

• the name of our band (Disciples of Rock - so they would know who to check out, if they enjoyed the songs)
• the title of the album (L.O.U.D - as we wanted to give the audience a clue as to what this album is about - breaking free and not standing in the silence any longer)
• the best selling song of the album (What Do You Want? - to advertise the music video also)
• the release date, so they now exactly when they can get it
• some 5* reviews, so they know that the album is worth listening to - also the reviews are from HMV and iTunes (so they know where they can purchase the album)

Idea 1

The rubix cube matches our key prop in the video which symbolises how our artist is no longer being manipulated like a puzzle would be, the colours also match the loud vibe we were trying to create. However we felt that for a rock genre this did not stand out enough and engage our target audience and not everyone would be able to figure out that symbolic code of the cube.  

Idea 2

With this idea we were going to have an image of the artist holding her head and then add some musical instrument flying from her head - similar to thoughts, however although an intriguing idea we felt that the image contradicted our idea that the artist is now bold with a new status of independence.

Idea 3

We therefore opted to use a more outgoing pose which relates to the rock genre (with our artist making the stereotypical rock hand gesture), she can also be seen wearing a leather jacket and headphones - thus implying her involvement with musical rock. But this image was fairly small and we felt it could be hard to make our properly.

Thus we chose this image which emphasises rock even more (with those rock hand gesture and an intense face - something many relate to rock musicians), the image also includes lots of loud colours like the rubix cube (linking directly to the album's message about making noise).

Final Idea

For our final idea however we thought it best to remove the black and white gradient from the background, as it drew too much attention away from the imagery and the key information by over-crowding the advertisement. The black background also allowed for a more professional look were you can't see the surrounding black boxes of the text and image.