Magazine Advertisement- Flat Plan



This is the flat plan we created for our magazine advertisement, this is for the single that our music video will include. The advertisement is very simple but I think that makes it look better. The band we are using is not very colourful, as their music is generally slow and meaningful. We feel that this is a traditional type of advertisement, but it works to an advantage for us as it fits with the band and the music. For the images we will be using silhouettes as it looks interesting and we feel that it fits well if we use a girl, as a lot of the bands songs are about a girl. For the advertisement we will probably use studio photographs that we take, as it is more professional. This will tie in with the limited colour palette and look traditional instead of complex. The girl will not need to wear make up or any specific clothing because only her shadow will be seen, her clothes and face will be black.

We will be practicing a few different poses for the photographs, to find which one fits the best with the advertisement, we don't want something over the top, as we think the flat plan above looks quite interesting already.
The album name and the band's name are both in the band's font (the font used to recognize the band); the review text and song titles are in Times New Roman font, which is quite a simple font but has a bold effect to it, which we thought worked well with the style. The word 'including' has been put in a calligraphy style font which was found online. We felt that if we used the same font for this word, it would just blend in with the other text.
As for the genuine layout of the advertisement, we thought we should go for a traditional and simple layout as it looks classy yet it still catches the eye of the audience well. We think the image fits well in its position as it is not surrounded by text, and is not too small, but fits nicely in the focus point.