Ancillary Task 2: Style Models

We need to produce a magazine advertisement for our digipack, so we have collected certain advertisements to give us inspiration for our own advertisement. The first images are from music magazines such as NME and The Word. These are both music magazines and collecting advertisements from these will allow us to use realistic elements of advertisements. The images we have taken show what stood out to us, and what we need to think about when producing ours.



This picture shows the top right of an advertisement on an A4 page. The black box is an advertisement for another signle by the artist. I think the positioning of this is different because it cuts into the background image and stands out. Also, it shows us how we can advertise other songs in our advertisement.




This advertisements looks like the front of the digipack cover, and I like the idea of including the other song titles by the main title. If we done this, it would also relate well to the digipack because it shows what it inside the pages like other song titles.



This image shows where the title of the artist and album name is: 2/3 down on the left hand side. I do not think this stands out very well because of the positioning. Also, I do not think the type font is effective.


However, we have decided to put our advertisement into a womans magazine, such as Glamour, Look or Elle. This is because of our songs genre; our target audience that will pay most attention to the advertisement will be young woman because of the romantic aesthetics. We do not want to put the advertisement into music magazines, as I feel that it would not get recognised as much (sterotypically, I feel the majority of readers are men) as it would in a womans magazine. By naming Julie London as an icon, relates well to women.

This is from Elle magazine; although it isn't an advertisement, it shows that the magazine advertises music through reviews. Glamour does the same, with many digipack covers on show.