Magazine Advert Ideas

For my magazine album advert I need to find a unique and eye-catching image that will attract the reader, it needs as most album adverts have, a photo of either the artist or the actual album cover, whether that be a symbol or some random shape. The use of font and bright colours is also clinical when trying to create a worthwhile magazine album advert.

In the example on the left Jessie J's new album 'Who are you', the use of the gold and stand out font makes this a very eye-catching magazine advert because of the use of the black background.

This Kings of Leon magazine album advert is also a very good example of a unique photo, the use of the four band members and then a photo of an eagle creates an interesting mix and a very intriguing photo which will make the reader want to look at it and read all the information that comes with it, the use of basic colours and then the occasional stand out red and yellow means all the writing is easy to see, once again the use of the black background helps the font stand out.

Colours for my Digipak and Album

For my digipak and magazine advert, colours will be essential when trying to create a unique and memorable cover, the use of bright and dark colours will mean that they work in contrast to make certain aspects stand out. Bright colours such as red and yellow will stand out more when having a black or grey background. My main idea is to use a black background then with a photo using white and then brown and yellow to make it stand out.

Album Font Design

Now that I've decided the name of my album, I have to now decide what font and colours I will use to make it a very independent and popular album cover.

These are my top four album fonts, they are all very stand out and 'indie' and I will do some tests on some coloured canvas's ones to see which one looks best as an album name cover.

Album name ideas and Album design inspiration

The original album name by the original song writers the 1975 was called 'The 1975' and the album cover looked like this:

I've had many different ideas for what I wanted to name the album since I have the band name with Buff Unicorn. The ideas I've had for album names are:

• Dimension (giving a different 'dimension' metaphorically to indie music)
• Infinity (endless playing music)
• Lemniscate (meaning infinity, more indie name)
• Generation (music for a generation)
• Fascination (extremely interesting music)

I got people from my target audience to give me a vote on which one they thought would be the best album name and why:

• Dimension - 3
• Infinity - 5
• Lemniscate - 11
• Generation - 3
• Fascination - 8

Why Lemniscate?

"Because it has another meaning and is very clever and it will attract audiences who are interesting it what it may mean."

Final Album Cover Name = Lemniscate

Album cover inspiration:

Justin Timberlake's 2013 album 'The 20/20 experience' is a very smart album cover

because he blurs out the image of himself and has two eye testers which are directed as if the audience could use them, also the use of black and white and then gold make the font stand out a lot more and make it much more appealing to someone when browsing albums.

Justin Bieber's 2012 album Believe won many different awards and topped the charts in over 50 countries, the reason this was such a good album cover was because of it's simplicity, it has nothing too flashy it's just an image of the artist ten the name of the artist and the album name, the use of black and white like with Justin Timberlake's means that any colour used makes it stand out, so in this album cover he uses a bright orange and yellow/gold to make it stand out.

Script

Band and Artist Names

The Original Band who sung 'Heart Out' were a band called 'the 1975', I had a few names that I wanted to use for the band name since it is once of the most important and fundamental things required for a band to be successful because the name is printed almost everywhere. 

Band Name Ideas: 

• Faint Airplane
• Owl Waste
• Buff Unicorn
• Hidden Radio
• Night Badger

I did a survey to find out what my target audience thought was the most appropriate name:

• Faint Airplane - 2
• Owl Waste - 1
• Buff Unicorn - 17
• Hidden Radio - 5
• Night Badger - 5

FINAL BAND NAME =  BUFF UNICORN

The original band member names were Adam Hann, George Daniel, Matthew Healy, Ross MacDonald and they look like this:

When changing these names I had a few different Ideas, these were:

• Cesar Newton, Joe Owens, Anthony Carter, Freddy Hindman
• Zachary Sims, Dominick Marsh, Ben Curtis, Gerald Shaw
• Matt Frazier, Toby Richards, Dale Freeman, Miles Cornell

I quite liked all three groups of names, so I did a small survey to find out what is the best name and I got these results:

• Cesar Newton, Joe Owens, Anthony Carter, Freddy Hindman - 12
• Zachary Sims, Dominick Marsh, Ben Curtis, Gerald Shaw - 11
• Matt Frazier, Toby Richards, Dale Freeman, Miles Cornell - 7

FINAL BAND MEMBER NAMES = 

Cesar Newton, Joe Owens, Anthony Carter, Freddy Hindman

Actress for my music video

For my music video I need a very stereotypical teenage girl, someone of average height, because she has to be smaller than the boy or else it may look comical or just a tad against the socially accepted normal couple. Also she needs to have long brown or blonde hair and dress fairly sensibly. She also has to have an outgoing personality, she needs to preferably be a dog lover because of the field scene and also must enjoy public events such as parties. 

My example of a stereotypical girl above, long hair and smart dress sense and very  pretty.