Magazine Advert: Making

A4 paper style, to keep with the conventional magazine advertisement.

We used a colour gradient for our background, giving a light to dark effective, allowing for certain areas to be more eye catching in the finished product. As we plan to use a white font, and so this on the black background will stand out better again the images. The images at the bottom will be darker, and so will also fade into this background. The lighter area at the top will allow for lighter pictures to stand out.

As we began adding our images, we found that leaving them as they were created too much of a bold effect on the images, which didn't suit the look and theme we wanted to achieve, and so we began to change the opacity of the images, which allowed them to blend together much better, giving them a better collage effect.

We arranged the images so that the lighter ones were at the top making them more visible and the darker were at the bottom, which allowed them to blend into the bottom background.

The font we chose, we felt suited out theme well and was not to fancy, so as not to draw away some of the focus from the images, however still bold enough to stand out from a distance.

The information we included is conventional of these magazine adverts, we included the artist and the singles name, as well as what the single was being released on, and the date of release. We also included the artists web addresses, to help a fan base build, and to allow the target market to find out more about the artist and his music.