The final part of our print products is an advert in a magazine. We chose to have this landscape as we wanted it because we liked the idea of it being an A3 two page spread. The first thing we did was insert the picture of Jess walking down the path and made it slightly transparent, we thought that this would be an effective photo to use as Jess is in the centre so we could have the writing around the outside of her. However, we wanted the artists name and the name of the album cover in the middle of the advert because it is more eye-catching and would therefore draw people in to reading it. Originally, we used the same font as we have used on our album cover for this (Seravek Extra Light) but we felt that it didn't look like a real media product, due to other adverts for albums having more complex titles. We decided to do some research and looked at real life adverts for albums in magazines, for example Jessie J's - Who You Are album and Ellie Goulding's - Lights album. Using 1001fonts.com, we experimented with lots of different fonts before we found one that looked most effective with our advert. Before inserting this however, we decided that the background didn't look bright enough so we inserted some lens flares on Premier Pro, which by inserting one in the top left corner, has made the photo look as if the sun is shining down on Jess. We then inserted the font and put it in the middle like we desired.
After looking at real album adverts, we decided to include a star rating, a small quote from a newspaper, and information about a certain song on the album. We wrote 'Includes Number One Hit On iTunes "Heaven"' as this is song in our music video. For this information we used the same font as the album cover as the information is only small, and having the new font we used for the titles on the advert would not have looked right. Another feature of an advert of an album is a small picture of the album cover itself, along with the price, bar-code and where it is available on it, which was used on the You Me at Six album. We decided to use the "Available on iTunes" logo because in modern society that is where most people buy their music, and no longer go into a music store to buy it. We put this price at £9.99 as that is the typical price for an album on iTunes.
After finishing this draft we changed our minds about the advert being A3 and landscape, due to the fact we had a lot of empty space. Therefore we thought we could create an A4 portrait version, to see which one we preferred. We used exactly the same information as before, just changed the layout and added a link to the artists official website at the bottom. When changing the layout, we put the photograph so that Jess was in the middle again, but having it like that would of made it impossible to have information around the outside of her without it covering her. As a result we cropped the photo and moved it to the right, so Jess is on the right hand side and the information could go on the left. On this version we put the titles at the top of the advert because with the photo being to the right now, the titles looked better on the left, with them overlapping slightly. We also added a shadow to the photo of the album cover so that it stood out more, and didn't look flat to the background. In the end we decided we preferred this version as there is a lot less empty space.