Magazine advert: Past Students Work Analysis

Shelley and i decided to look at some work produced by past students in order to see what can be done and what we could try to change or alter when producing our own Magazine advert.


This looks to be quite a successful simple magazine advert. the simplistic design and composition, the artist is introduced in an intriguing format, as the audience can not see the whole image but jsut part of it through a tree cut out creating a sense of mystery drawing attention. however the poster does seem to be a little to similar to a film poster in terms of composition for my liking as it is  slightly confusing until you read the line 'includes the single shadows.' However the choice of color and the inclusion of a star rating seems to work well and is something me and shelley would like to include in our own Magazine advert.

Fonts:

inorder to make our digipak and magazine advert appear ore proffesional, we have chosen to look for new fonts that are not standard for microsoft office or adobe photoshop. we found this website 'www.dafont.com' which has an incredible slection of fonts in many styles.

 

Digipal: Front Panel

So here is the final Design fro the front panel of our digipak, well balanced and with a little personal touch to it.

Digipak: Front Panel

I have worked on a number of different front panel designs for our digipak, each working with the same basic concept, utilizing the portrait of Shelley and presenting the name of the artist and album.

I really like my first attempt, the layering of the album title behind the portrait of Shelley takes it from being an incredibly flat image to becoming a more three dimensional piece. however the overall composition seems more like fashion advertisement than album cover.

Here i have changed the way that the artists name is presented, its another great composition in terms of tonal variation, however it seems a little top heavy.

This is a much more balanced composition and the use of a hand written font accentuates the personal touch of the music by Charlotte Webster, however the font that 'Charlotte Webster' is written in may be a little to hard and industrial to suit the music.

I decided to introduce a new idea this time around to try and push the composition through fashion advertisement into album cover. here i have overlayed a macro image of bubbles over Shelley's portrait. It gives the effect of Shadow and broken light which i really like however the composition is not at all balanced i do like the concept.

this seems to be a lot closer to something that could be used as a album cover, the positioning of the album title and the name of the artist is well balanced in conjunction with the portrait.

Here i just added the 'bubble' image once again and inverted the name of the album, it looks perfect and has a real three dimensional quality to it.

I made the artists name a little smaller here just to see what it looked like, it completely unbalances the image, and so the one before is much more successful.