Thursday, 10 March 2011

Magazine Advert



The magazine advert is complete and has the similar look to the front of the CD cover, to create continuity, and also for the audience, they will recognise the band, giving more band awareness. It also helps to give the band an identity, and a theme that will remain with the band to help create a lasting representation.

CD Cover - Front and Back





This is the complete CD cover, we have made sure that we have included everything that is needed. This portrays the band as how they want to be portrayed; interesting, unique, and fun loving, appealing to there target audience.
We have also included all the conventional details as well:
- copyright logo
- barcode
- compact disc logo
- music records logo
- numbered songs
- name of the band and album

The image includes a number of features to help us get across the image the band wants. Mise-en-scene in the image such as the corporate business man falling gives a link to a rebellious theme with the band. This rebellious, fun and happy image is emphasised by the bright colours and sunny image, with the band having a good time in the image. This creats synergy in the product, all features coming together to create a purpose within the product.

Our back cover contrasts hugely with the front, creating a juxta position within the product. It is as opposite as possible to the front cover creating a contrasting product and showing two extremes of how the band often see themselves.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Magazine Advert and CD Cover

The magazine advert and CD cover are now complete. They both represent the band as how we, and the band want to be represented which we discussed earlier in the blog. We decided to go with the cartoon/real idea, on the CD cover this to have the band 'normal' on the front of the CD cover, with no effects added to them, with a cartoon background, then to have this opposite on the other side. We have done this to show fragmentation of society, to show how the band can be seen or represented differently. We also did this to emphasis that the band is unique to any other band, this is shown by the fact that the CD case is different, the concept of the band breaching the boundary from real life and cartoon shows how the band are unique in their ideas and enjoy living a hedonistic lifestyle, again which is shown though mixing the two different worlds.

The magazine advert has just a complete blue background which is different from the CD case, this is because when attracting the audience they see the band in one light, when buying the CD and listening the to the music they will realise how the the band is different.