Group magazine advert- Miss Miller

Group Magazine Advert – Miss Miller

Intro

We had to agree on one advert to create our group magazine advert, to do this we looked at eachothers and discussed what we liked and disliked, from this we knew whos we prefered, this process also got the points from each magazione advert we liked so we could include it on our joint magazine advert.

We all decided that we liked my magazine advert the best and from that we worked together to make it better and suit the genre better which my advert didn't do at first.

Main

- Colours

We decided to change the colours of my magazine advert, I had made mine simplistic and the colour wasn't conventional to the genre. So when we worked on the joint one we decided to change the colour scheme so it was brighter and more conventional to the genre. This helps it stand out in a magazine and will atract people to the advert. This is conventional and shows the audience that our artist is also conventional which will help gain the artist a fan base.

-Conventions of genre – whether have conformed/subverted and why.

We have conformed to conventions of the genre, we done this by using the colours that would be seen as conventional which are bright and stand out. This will impress our target audience as that is what they like and will also show a larger audience what the genre is like. The magazine advert isn't too diverse so that people are put off of the album, it follows conventions while still attracting people to the album.

- Images used

In my individual magazione advert I used an image that I took myself, which was of a skyline, this image is interesting and suits the genre as it has wavy colouds which are quite rare, this makes the image different to any image I have seen before. In the joint magazine advert, we kept the image but changed the colours so it was even more unique, it now has a puple sky. We have also included an image of a rhino which is in the center of the magazine advert, this is bold and our group incuded it as we wanted to have a symbol for our artist and the rhino fits with the white rhino name o the artist. The use of the rhino isn't conventional as most artist in the genre use themselves on the magazine advert, by using the rhino we have defied conventions and made our magazine advert more memorable to our audience.

- Layout/design

The Layout and design chnaged as we included a rhino in the center of the advert which attracts the readers attention to the advert, apart from a that we made changes to font size and layout, but this was to make the magazine advert more obvious that it was promoting the album which I don't feel like it was doing before.

- Typography

The typography is fairly plain and simple but also unique, We could have changed it to a more conventional font, but we felt we wanted the writing to be readable, which our typography is. 

- Language

We kept a simple amount of language on the magazine advert, it has the name of our atist, the album name and the 'out now' slogan to advertise the album. 

- Think about connotations of all of the above

The connotations that come from our magazine advert are that it is conventional to the genre, this is thropugh the unique image including the rhino, so the fans of the genre will like it, but also the advert is bold and will attract attention from magazine readers, giving us the best chance of making a popular magazine advert.

- Talk about elements that you have taken from each group member, explaining why you have incorporated them (include screen shots of each other’s magazine adverts – brief analysis of what have incorporated)

From my magazine advert we kept the basic layout and the image along with the typography and font.

From Harry and Bens we included the rhino image which they bioth had on their magaizne adverts we decided to incoprperate this as they wanted to make the advert bolder and have a symbol for our artist which the rhino does for us.

Harry's magazine advert wasn't one that I liked, in my opinion the font was to bold and didn't fit the artists image or genre, also the background was very bold and didn;t have any relevance to the genre, the element that we decided to use was the rhino image.

Ben's magazine advert was also bold and the font wasn't very nice to look at and he had two different fonts which didn't go together, he tried to fit conventions of the genre but they din't fit the theme of his other elemnts in the advert. Also the background image wasn't his own and didn't fit the genre conventions. We chose to incorperate the rhino image that he used but we chose Harry's instead.

My magazine advert was simplistic and they felt it didn't catch the readers attention or fit the genre conventions. But we all decided that it was the best base to work on our group magazine advert.

Conclusion

I feel that our magazine advert conforms to our genres conventions as it is colourful but not too bold, the background image is unique and still fits genre conventions, the font and typography allow the reader to clearly see what is being advertisted.

I feel that our target audience would like our magazine advert as it fits the genre conventions whithout making it over the top which could put people off of our magazine advert, I feel we got the balance right.

I found working as a group to be good as we all worked together to create the best magazine advert possible, the ideas that come from every member helped make the best magzine advert possible.