First draft of magazine advert

This is what I had initially started doing. I created my magazine advertisement using the software of photo shop, and also paint. I decided to use an image that I had taken from our music video because I thought that the image really representedhow are artist could be realtable to her audience through creating a realistic image of her, I didn't want to use an image that looked too flashy, but I did want my artist to be in the advertisement. Having the artist in the advertisement of an album is something typical to do within a pop genre because they like to show off the image of the artist.
I got the idea of how to lay out my own advertisement by looking at other artists magazine advertisements, I had chosen the colours by looking at my digi pack, I wanted to use the same colour tones so as my artist was more easily recognisable to her audience through using the same colours to represent her through promotional aspects.

Music Magazines

Conventions of a promotional advert

some of The typical conventions that you would see on a magazine advert are for an album would be the following:

- Ratings / opinions / reviews
- The band name
- Tour date details
- Album artwork
- Website details
- I-tunes/ play.com etc Adverts
- Singles (taken from)
- Album Name
- Record Label
- Nominations and awards


This is an example of an advert in Q magazine for Marina and the diamonds, it has most of the conventions I have previously mentioned such as the band name, featuring songs, album name, review quotes/opinions, album artwork, and the website for the band.

Questions on my digi pack

I have posted this small questionnaire on facebook for a few people to answer, which will hopefully provide me with some useful feedback.
I have asked the following questions.

1: does it fit with a pop genre?
2:do you think the album name and artist name are well suited to a pop genre?
3:is there a good enough use of colour?
4:do you think the track list suits the album?
5:are there any improvements you could think of that would make it even better suited to the artist I have created and the pop music genre?

Album and song advertising

looking through popular music distribution sights such as amazon.co.uk and HMV, has made me realise all the diverse ways songs and albums are advertised and sold to audiences. Advertising through as many ways as possible are important to sell songs, albums are advertised though all types of media, such as tv, internet, and magazines. I have particularly been looking at a music related website and magazine top of the pops, and also itunes which is an international music download site that is constantly updating on music events and chart news, seeing that a song is number one in the charts may encourage people to buy it, so it is a really important part of the advertising, where as the top of the pops web page is telling audiences about the artists as well as their music which again helps with advertising because it gets people feeling more involved with what their favourite artist is doing.