Final Magazine Advert - Colt : Black Reign

Feedback and Re-consideration

In relation with our digipak, the feedback we received  did not match our expectations which then made us re-considered making a new advert that will mainly follow the typical conventions of which a magazine advert would contain. Some of the feedback stated that they image of the artist look "unfinished" because a artist of this particular music genre would be much more polished and show of wealth. The image and the presentation was also said to be too cluttered as there was too much big information that was getting in the way with the actual image. The layout was also another issue it was pointed out to us that the main purpose of the advert would mean that the audience would know where to buy it so it would be appropriate to have the small icons of where the album can be purchased. 

Taking this feedback into account we went ahead a produce a new magazine advert that follow more the typical hip hop and rap conventions. By this we used another photograph of the artist another of him in a suit so that he does look wealthy and polished like a successful artist should be. The photograph that we used is now a mid shot showing off his suit and tie which he is adjusting in the shot. The layout is much less cluttered by just making the less important text smaller and just having the artist  and album name and the digipak cover the main and biggest priorities on the advert. Learning from the feedback although we had included icons where the audience can purchase the item we also used Napster which is a MP3 downloading site, but we also had added a few icon of social networking site with a tag of which the audience can promote the artist more amongst the media.

 Although the feedback said the font suited and compliment the digipak once we had changed the photograph to black and white effect we though that the orange on the digipak would make the digipak stand out so there was no need to steal away attention from the album cover.

Final Magazine Advert

The software we used in order to edit and make this magazine advert was the well known iPhoto and a app I had on my laptop called "Picture Collage Maker Lite"

The Picture Collage was tricky because I had never used it properly and so it was a lot of time just trying out different features and effects. We had the major problem of knowing how to get rid of the boarder when we down place an image whether form iPhoto or from the Internet without getting a white boarder around the image it took us a while to know how to get rid of it.

Below is a screenshot of what the software looks like with a few of the features is has 

The photo we used of Ahsan was edited before it was placed in the Picture Collage Maker because that type of editing couldn't be done on that program. Below is a screenshot of the editing in iPhoto.