I began to research magazine adverts similar to that of our bands rock/pop genre. We looked at the font styles, text, imaging and promotion techniques and thought about how we could use these in our own magazine advert.
Looking at the band Paramore's rock genre advert, we noticed that it was very simplistic, yet it attracts the reader's attention.
We took this technique on board by using a simple image of the band and hardly any writing, in order to promote what we needed to, but without going over the top.
We also looked at an advert for the band Manic Street Preachers, which took similar conventions to that of Paramore's poster advert.
It used similar and clear text on a plain background, and also used limited text to promote the band. One large image was used, which is also what we used for our advertisement.
As our band Starfish's genre is also partly pop, I further looked and magazine adverts first hand out of the latest magazines.
I noticed that unlike the rock genre posters, the pop genre tended not to use back and white backgrounds liek that of Paramore and Manic Street Preachers. We took this on board and instead decided to use the original light colours in the image of the band, but combined this with the other features and techniques of the rock band adverts, such as, the simple and plain text.
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