Production Diary - 17/11/14

During today's double lesson we looked at the different elements that a magazine advert requires including vital information such as; the album name, artist name, reviews, availability, format and social media. We also looked through several examples of previous students magazine adverts, discussing what made a good or a bad magazine advert. From our discussion, it was notable that the magazine adverts that had very few pictures and were much simpler seemed to look more professional and appealing to the audience. Overall, I found this task very helpful as it gave me a clear insight to what I needed to include to achieve the highest possible mark.

In the second part of the lesson, I then focused on producing the format of my magazine advert. I first began by looking through my analysis of magazine adverts from the pop/indie music artists to decide on an appropriate layout for my advert. After looking for ideas and inspiration, I then began producing my draft on the program Adobe InDesign. After using the program to construct my magazine for my foundation portfolio, I was quite familiar with the different tools and how to create a single poster. I began by creating different coloured squares to suit the key I was going to include at the end of the document. I made sure to create the boxes on different layers so I could create a video of my progress at the end using CamStudio. The red boxes indicate the main text/titles, the blue boxes represents the picture I will have in the middle of my advert and the black boxes show where I will include other information including reviews and social media websites. While designing my draft, I also looked back at my inital planning  ideas for my magazine advert and stuck to this as I also created boxes to go with the different sections of what I will include on my advert. My first draft/formatted version of the magazine advert can be seen below: