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MAGAZINE ADVERT PRODUCTION - 21st January 2016

 

 

Creating our magazine advert was quite a fun process because Katie, Milo and I loved the idea of superimposing the images to create a disorientating image for the audience because it also suits the indie pop genre and this is the audience we are appealing to. Similarly to the digipak, we used Compose Lite and this was a really good software to use because it allowed us to superimpose the two images perfectly create a really eerie look, without being over the top and creating the wrong look altogether. We asked four, sixteen year olds, 3 seventeen year olds and 1, eighteen year old, however two respondents didn't disclose their age however we know that they are in this age range because everyone we asked was in the same sixth form and this narrowed the age down for us. Similarly, we asked five males and 3 females, with the two other females not disclosing their gender. All respondents said that they thought the digipak fitted the indie pop genre, and all also said the superimposition and make up also looked effective. The typography was less clear cut like with the digipak with five saying they liked it, but the remaining five saying they didn't like it. But the typography was the only factor that the audience wanted us to change, with all ten respondents saying the position of the image is also good. Due to this response we have reconsidered the typography and created a questionnaire and the feedback from this focus group will help us determine which font style we will use. Obviously, the font that we decide on will depend on what looks the most effective but the final decision will defintely be one of the six texts we showed to our focus group.

FINAL MAGAZINE ADVERT

4TH FEBRUARY 2016

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

FIRST DRAFT

Above is the final draft of our magazine advert, which has some really clear and obvious improvements, courtesy of our audience feedback and constant judgement of our own work. We changed the font style to make it look less bold, but it still remains eye catching but in a more feminine way. This was an important change because our main target audience is females and therefore to ensure we are appealing to them, we needed to change the text style to ensure it was attractive and appealing instead of being a deterrent to the music by giving a false impression. We also removed the black outline on the text that wasn't the album name or artists name becasue the text is too small and looked really cramped together with the outline. In comparison to the first draft, the final drafts text looks much more professional and appealing. Similarly, we made all of the text upper case and this adds to its professional look by making it look sophisticated and sleek. We also added more additional information by adding in a review from a magazine that is well viewed by many music listeners and we thought this would support one of the many stereotypical conventions of an indie pop magazine advert. In addition to this, we changed the size format of the actual magazine advert because as you can see on the first draft, it's more square shaped as opposed to being more rectangular. This would have challenged the stereotypical convention of all magazine adverts and would've looked more like another digipak and on reflection, it was a really obvious mistake we made. But thankfully it was changed for the final draft and it now looks more like a magazine advert. However, we kept the actual image the same because as a group we remained in the thought that it looked really professional and presented a really effective contrast between the two images. Overall we are really pleased with our magazine advert and our audience feedback supported this and allowed us to make our improvements to make it look even better.

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