Initial designs for magazine advert

My rough copy (David Odumosu)

This is my rough copy design of a magazine advert that I feel we should use some ideas from it. My ideas came from researching and analysing already existing magazine adverts in the same genre as our music.
I dressed the artist wearing a plain white t-shirt and wearing a gold chain with a cross on it. The cross I feel follows the convention of hip-hop artist as they normally wear flashy jewellery to connote wealth and status. In addition to this I put the artist in a white t-shirt so that it would make the chain stand out more.

In my magazine advert I positioned my artist in front of artwork which had the title of the song on it and a design of one of the areas which we filmed in.

The body language I feel is also an important part in the magazine advert because it is creates the characters persona. We can give the artist a negative body language which would imply that the songs he makes are sad, violent and other negative connotations or a positive body language which would imply the music his music is happy and positive. However in my design I mixed the body language to portray that the artist music is a mix.

Ayo's rough copy

Ayo created a magazine advert with just text on it and no picture of the artist. He did this because he felt that our artist was already well know and the audience did not need an image of him to know who he is and they could already tell who the artist is just from the name. 

He also above the name gave where the songs could be found. This is something that I missed out in my design which I feel I should have implemented.

Although his reasoning for not having an image of the artist is credible I feel that we should adhere to the conventions of having an image of the advert on the magazine advert.

David Aluko's rough copy

David Aluko's design included an image of the artist central of the whole advert with the song title at the top of the advert and the artist name in a smaller font next to the image.

He also had where you can purchase it on the magazine advert which Ayo also had and I didn't include. After discussing with my group I now realise it is very important to put where you can access the music on the advert. 

However in David Aluko design one of the text says "Out this friday!" and below it says "Available now" this will need some clarification when we are making our final design.

In conclusion, we will integrate all our ideas to create a final piece which we will use photoshop to design it. We aim to create a precise and professional advert.