Evaluation Q1

Student Digipak + Magazine

Final Product

Here you can see is the final product. Since the editing update you can see that we have added a few extra rating. We think that the outcome of this magazine advert its very effective and would help promote the album really well as it meets all the generic conventions using black and white around the border and with the text. Also having a group of people in the centre with the artist being in the middle. We didn't use any social networking addresses as realistically when this album and songs came out they would of been using social networks. We have used to corrects types of ratings instead of just picking any we have used the ones that you would see on a 'Madness' magazine advert.

Magazine updates

Here you can see is the first step to create our magazine advert. We have taken the image from the front of the CD cover that we have previously created. We then created a black and white checkered border that runs along the outside of the advert. By having the artist with a group of people have having the checkered theme running around the edge it helps match generic conventions for this genre.


On the second update you can see that we have now added text to the advert. We have added the name of the band and also the name of the album. We have used to original font that we have used on the CD cover. This helps us with the use of brand identity as when the audience sees this advert and then the album they will be able to see that they are the same and will help them recognize them easier and it should just click on what the album is.





On the third editing update you can see that we have now added the date and also various ratings and the 'Madness' logo. We have put the release date on the front of it. This helps promote the album up until the album is out and makes the audience wait until its out and want it more.

Generic conventions of a magazine advert

Magazine advert feed back

 In todays lesson we presented out three magazine advert to our media lesson. We all sat around a table and discussed our ideas and our reasoning behind them and how we have come up with the idea and if there is any brand identity. The class voted for our first and second idea as they where so similar they think that we should combine the little differences that we have and produce a final product of both.

Design one and two are basically the same the only difference that there is that the fonts are different and some of the information is different. In class every one weighed up the pros and cons of both of them and came to the conclusion of mixing them both together. The image on the front of them is a replica of what is going to be on the front of the album. This consists of the main artist stood at the front in colour with different characters stood behind in a surreal type of colour. We are keeping the black and white checkered theme around the border that you see on the back of the album. The reason for using the same image on the front is to help brand identity. This means that you are able to relate themes and images from the magazine advert to the Album.

In the last magazine design it is an the main artist with his arm up that you see in the middle of the magazine. We straight away thought that we wouldn't do this as there is really any brand identity this makes it harder for the audience to be able to relate the magazine and album together which is why it is better is we use the from cover of the album.

Brand identity

When promoting a bands album in a magazine advert you find that there are many similarities more than differences when they do this. This is because you want the audience to be able to identify similarities from the Album when looking at the magazine advert.
As you can see here is a magazine advert for the album 'Green Day' 21st century breakdown. As you can see the magazine advert is almost identical as the CD album but it just elaborates or more information than is given on the Album. For example on the magazine advert it is telling the audience when the album is being released and with having the same image as the album cover the audience as soon as they see it they will be able to know what it is who it is by and how long it has been out for. It is also promoting a single song which means they may have high hopes for it being a big hit or that it already is a big hit and that they are telling the audience that this song is included to help increase the sale.

As you can see they have also used the same font in the same colour and size as well. This means that this will become some form of theme or logo for them which also helps them to be recognised by the audience.

Conventions of a magazine advert

Magazine Advert Breif

To create a magazine advertisement for the digipak.