Magazine Adverts

The images we used for our magazine adverts are completely different to what we used for our cd promo packs,as in the magazine adverts we wanted to have more of an emphasis on the actual album and the music rather than just the band themselves.In the first magazine advert we decided to go with an image that shows real meaning to the video we did so we went for obvious choice of a person disappearing as the name of the song is i disappear.I feel this worked very well as the reason why the person is disappearing is very obvious to the audience so they don't really have to think to hard what the video is about which is what a metal/rock music video should be about.The bright colours we used in this made a good change from the usual dull blacks and greys that metal is associated with as it gave a fresh perspective on something and may even attract a wider audience due to it not being so dark and evil looking like most magazine posters for metal and rock albums are.We added a rating of five stars by the famous metal magazine metal hammer which would give it more of a professional look and should make it a lot More eye catching to people looking a it.We also added text saying best album of the year which for any album is a massive achievement so haven't this written on will defiantly give a big amount of credit to the album.

The second magazine advert was more of a traditional style metal/rock album advert as it was dark and dull but the image on it held significance to the album.Having this image on the advert gave a certain sense of mystery as you are not completely clear what it means so you don't really know what to think of the album itself but at the same time the advert stays true to the traditional metal style by having the dark colours and dark atmostpehere.The slogan the end is near i think is a very good catchy piece of text which will draw the attention of the public because they will instinctively think that with this it may be the last album the band makes so they should prepare themselves.In the bottom right corner we displayed the album again as a sort of little preview so people know what the front of the album looks like.