This magazine advertisement was designed to be recognizable on store shelves by mirroring the design of the artist's DVD packaging. It features the CD and DVD covers with a white border to make them stand out against a high-contrast black and white photo intended to represent the rock genre. The fonts and layout match those used in the DVD packaging to maintain consistency across materials promoting the artist's release.

1. Magazine Advert Evaluation

2. This is my magazine advert, I have based it strongly around the design for my DVD Digipack, as I had seen that this was a strong convention of almost all magazine adverts for musical releases. This is done so that the product would be recognisable on the shop shelf. I have also included the image of the packaging for my CD and DVD Digipack (making the CD image quickly with the same logo and image with a different black and white effect on-that same as I used in the main advert image). I tried not to distort this image too much so that the musician would be recognisable to someone who had seen the music video. I made my magazine advert in Gimp using filters and editing colours with the brightness/contrast editor and desaturate effect. I used a white paintbrush set to opacity of 50% around the edges of the CD and DVD Digipack covers to make them stand out. I used a high contrast and low angle image photo to portray power and represent the Rock genre, I know black and white images are often used to represent acoustic artists as well, although these images are usually softer colours without the high contrast to look more natural. I think this is fine however as Nick also plays a lot of acoustic music. I kept the text simple, using the fonts from my DVD Digipack and for other texts used a very simple plane font so that it was clear, I had seen in my research other adverts do this. I also included website addresses at the bottom and the record label logo for the same reason.