Magazine Advert choices

Similar to my album cover I have two choices for my magazine advert and I am going to hold a voting session with my peers.

Album cover choices

I have decided to have 3 sample album covers and then hold a voting session with my peers on which would make the most effective album cover.

Album cover 1

Album cover 2

Album cover 3

One of these will end up as my album cover but the other two photos, one will be used in my magazine advert and one will be used in my insert.

Rough Cut Feedback

I did a screening of my rough cut to my peers so that I could get feedback which would then help me to make any changes to produced my final cut. After the screening I collected the feedback made a brief summary of what they commented on.

• Overall the music video was a great media production and fitted well to the genre of music
• The use of the animatics especially the bus worked well. 
• The performance scenes tied in well with the song and shows them as a band.
• The scene showing the photos and the following when they are burnt were good
• The ending with the path complimented the lyrics
• At the end when the picture scene of the band was enjoyable
• However the lip syncing at the beginning could be a bit sharper.
• Also the fire scene maybe too long and could do with some scenes in between.

Taking this into account I can now edit my final cut based on these points to make a better project.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut fir my music video Which Way To Go By The Grifters. I plan to show this to my peers and get feedback and find out if I need to make any amendments.

Maroon 5's Album cover

Maroon 5

"Overexposed" is the fourth album from the band Maroon 5 and has widely successful. The band have decided on an extremeley abstract route for the cover of the album; the album cover was designed by an LA artist called 'Young & Sick'. The cover seems to be inspired by artist such as Picasso and other modern cartoonists. The cover had mixed reviews from critics some describing it as "The bright colors and cartoon images are representative of the album’s themes" whilst others described it as "it is what an episode of The Simpsons looks like if you’re on acid." In my opinion the use of color is effective in grabbing the audiences attention as you would definitely take a second look at it so it shows that the use of color is important when designing an album cover. However there seems to be too much going on and might be a little overwhelming for some people. 

Magazine advert planning

After researching what makes an effective magazine article I have decided to go down a more non- conventional route and do a landscape magazine advert as I believe this will be successful in the marketing of my band.

I am planning on having the photo as the predominate image but I am not going to have it as the back cover as I don't think that will follow the look I am trying to follow. I am going to include the bands name, album name as well as logo buttons such as the available on Itunes button.

I am going to use the software's Picasa 3, PowerPoint and Word when creating my final magazine advert.  

Rancid's Album Cover

Rancid

The album cover for Rancid's album third album "... And out come the wolves" has followed a more abstract route. The centeral image is not of the band but this works for them as it is their third album; they have already gain status through their first two that they can try and use alternative album covers.

The bands name is in a graffiti style text and this works well with the genre their music falls into. As well using the colour red connotes danger and rebelling which again is common in the lyrics of a lot of punk bands, it is also eye catching. I am hoping to incorporate to graffiti element in my digi pack however I am going to try and find a less harsh graffiti style as although the bands genre is punk they follow the characteristics of an indie band.