Megazine Advertisement

The programme that I have decided to use for my magazine advertisement is Microsoft Publisher. I have used this because you can find templates and possible inspiration for magazine advertisements. For my magazine advertisement I used a black document. I first thing I did was changed the colour of my background, I changed it to a grey colour, I chose this because of the images that I will be using for my magazine advertisement. Because the magazine advertisement is based on the digipak, I decided that I would use the same images that I have used for my digipak for my magazine advertisement.

As you can see, I have used the main image that I used for my digipak, but I have cut it up and merged it into different sections. Through the editing process of my magazine advertisement I have decided that I will be changed the previous colour scheme that I had decided on. I have decided this because in the previous colour scheme the red of my lips is quite a bright, whereas through the editing process I feel that are more of a deep red, so I will be changing this colour scheme. I have also decided to add grey to the colour scheme because of the colour of the back ground that I have decided on.

Once I had done this I began to add the font to my magazine advertisement. I tried to keep the text on my magazine advertisement as minimal as possible and stuck to the colour scheme that I had chosen. The way I produced my magazine advertisement was in a layer technique. I started with the plain black background, then once I had cropped my individual images on PaintShop Pro X4 I then began adding them onto the second layer of my magazine advertisement. 

Once I had inserted my second layer onto my magazine advertisement and then began to try different alterations with the images to see which way would be best fitted for my magazine advertisement.

Once I had decided on which was I prefered my images I then began adding my final layers of my magazine advertisement. I started by inserting the text of the font. I began to think about what I actually want to say on my magazine advertisement. This is where I began to look back to the research that I had done on magazine advertisements and finally decided on, the groups name, the title of my music video song, a quote from a magazine, the date the album would be released and listings of other songs. I then looked on the internet and noticed that some magazine advertisements use a sort of sponsor e.g Amazon or a Blackberry barcode. So I then used these ideas also and incorporated them into my magazine advertisement.

Once I had done this, I then began to think about what font I would be using. I though it best to link both of my ancilory tasks together so that they follow the same theme so I have used the same font as I used within my digipak.