Ideas for Magazine Advertisement

Both of us have designed some magazine adverts so we can compare our ideas and develop from them before we start actually making them. This will allow us to easily plan out our ideas and see what could work and what doesn't work well.

Designed by Alex

Here we have two microphones, this is used to symbolise the performance scene of them singing with microphones, however it would not look like a very interesting magazine advert if it was just two pieces of equipment as it wouldn’t have much meaning or originality to our specific music video.

Here we want to incorporate the use of the grass and being outside, as it gives off positive vibes and displays a nice view. Incorporating scenery will make our shots more aesthetically  pleasing, drawing our audiences attention. We may not direct the shot at a tree because it isn't an important object in the narrative of our song. I haven't included the actor in my designs which I think we should as they are important for our audience to see who's singing especially as our genre is pop.

Designed by April

For this magazine advert I decided to create an image of the couple as they meet and pass each other, which I thought would be a good idea to incorporate into our final magazine advert as it is an important part of the story. This is because it gives that mystery to the audience creating a nice effect of what is happening in this picture as there is emotion being show between the characters. It is also very symbolic and considers the lighting as we will take this shot with the sunset in the background, we could definitely consider a lot of these features if we were to use this.

Here is another magazine advert that I created. I designed this based on the ideas I had for the performance shots in the music video where we will be using microphones on stands as props and lighting hanging in the background. I placed them facing away from each other looking down because they are sad about each other, representing the emotion and tension between them. I thought this shot would be quite aesthetically pleasing due to the lighting in the background which I thought would be good to use as it would draw the eye from the audience viewing it.

The first two Magazine Advertisements were created by Alex and the second two were created by April. We liked the use of the tree on Alex's second design and would like to incorporate that idea as the background of the magazine advert. We also liked April's idea of when they bump into each other on the pathway as the main shot in the advert. So we will combine our ideas by using the tree in the background and the actors in front of it. We will then use the idea from both of our adverts to have the title of the song at the top of the advert. Our main aim is to draw our audiences attention to the magazine advert. Therefore we will make sure it is bold, clear and stands out in terms of images and important information on it such as the artists names and the title of the song. We also want the visuals to be aesthetically pleasing so it intrigues people more. This planning will help us when creating our magazine advert because we now have a visual idea of what our intentions look like, allowing us to compare each others to see what we can come up with and develop from. We can start taking the shots for our magazine advert as we know what sort of visuals we want and find a way to put them together and see what works best.