ANCILLARY TASK 2 - CREATING MY MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT

At first, I thought about using the programme Microsoft publisher because I was familiar with it and knew that it was ideal for creating things such as advertisements. Though, when I began this, I switched to photoshop because I was more comfortable with using this programme because after working on the programme for my CD cover, I felt more confident using it.

Again, I began by editing the image I had chosen to use for my advertisement. Instead of using picnik, I edited the image on photoshop, because it was only a slight change.
I chose this image because it links directly to my front cover of my CD in ancillary task 1. This is a convention seen in real media products when advertising something, especially CD albums/new released music.

After this, I decided to play about with the layout of my advertisement, referring to my original plan throughout, though I did change some of the ideas whilst creating my advertisement. This was due to reasons such as the text couldn't be seen in specific areas and general dislike for certain things.

First I included the text stating the name of the artist. I decided to keep the colour of the text white and red. This links directly to my CD cover, which is also white and red. This is also why I used pristina font, to keep continuity.

By looking at other magazine advertisements, I decided on how to layout my own advertisement and what text to include. From the Youmeatsix advert, I decided to use 'OUT NOW' at the bottom of my page.

I also decided to create a music critic company and a statement about my advertisement to place alongside a star rating. This is to promote the album further by encouraging people to but it. By quoting a reliable source involved in the music industry, it allows the source to be more reliable.

I decided that I would need to create stars to be able to rate the album, which can be used with my critic opinion. Originally, I decided to use the programme paint to create the stars to copy over. Whilst trying to do this, I found it hard to delete the background of the stars, so instead used photo shop to create the stars.

An issue with this, was the size because it was difficult to create the same sized stars each time.