Magazine advert and Digipack almost complete (more influence)

We have been working on our Ancillary tasks these previous few weeks, and have almost completed both of them. All that is left to do is the inside two pages of the digipack.

We got a lot of influence for the magazine advert from some magazines that we looked at. These were the Futureheads advert and another one for Kings of Leon. Here they both are.

 This Kings of Leon magzine advert is almost identical to their CD album cover. The layout influenced our ideas greatly, the text along the bottom for instance, was very helpful. The Amazon.co.uk logo drove us to think about sales, and we implemented the Itunes logo where our single can be bought. In addition to this, the text being towards the top, with the name of the band and the album name together helped us to take the idea and change it to our liking. We ended up having the name of the band 'Pistola Kicks' along the top, but coming from the left (influenced further by the My Chemical Romance CD cover previously). We then put the single name underneath. The text was put away from the image deliberately in order to draw the attention to the image. This is because we really want the image to attract the audience, denoting the typical themes and conventions of the usual indie/rock genre, such as darkness, loneliness and boredom. This is also very similar to how we wanted our music video to look.

This advert for the Pigeon Detectives helped us even further. The 'Brand new album out now' text was drawn into our own work, but rather 'The brand new single'. This will attract the audience, and inform them at the same time of the new song that has been released. It will be especially helpful for fans of the Pistola Kicks, or maybe new-to-be fans that would see this and listen to the song. Moreover; we used the idea for quotes, as seen at the bottom of this advert. We went on the Pistola Kicks' website and used google to find interviews or articles on the band. We then took quotes from these articles and put them on the advert, one we even found from Q magazine.