Magazine Advert Analysis - 2

In my first attempted magazine advert, I decided to try and keep the theme simple, as this a characteristic that we tried to apply throughout the video. I felt if I tried to add too many elements to a simple advert, that it would take away from the effect that we were trying to create.

To start with, I used a simple black background, as I felt this would be a good canvas to start working from, as there are so many options that you can add to this. Following this, I added my main image, which was our artist playing guitar. I originally placed this image as main focus, but with the size I increased the image to, it all became too pixelated and stretched. So with this in mind I decided to split the page in half, in order to be able to write the information on the bottom half, and use the image effectively on the top half.

This worked well, however I didn't like the fact that you can see the artist sitting down, so I then blacked out the chair, and the artists legs to show that the artist was standing not sitting. Once I'd created this, I added the artists name to the top half.

Upon looking over the advert, I felt it needed some more content, so I then found a shot we took in dover of just the landscape, and decided I was going to place the artist in Dover. This was a lot worse once finished that I originally thought it might be. After cutting the artist image down to just what I needed from it, I then put in the Dover picture. This picture did not work with the artist, as it looked very 'unrealistic' and the artist also appeared to be facing the wrong way, and this stopped the advert from being even slightly effective.