Creative Task- Magazine Advert.

In class today we have looked at making a magazine advert by looking at the branding of an artist. To start with we where shown a music video by 'The Courteeners'. The song title is 'Take Over the World'.

After watching the video for the second time we then had to write down ideas or iconography that was triggered from the video. We were also given dates that we had to include on a magazine advert that sells an upcoming gig for a new album. The dates and venues are as follows:-

• February 21st - Nottingham Rock City.
• February 22nd - Leeds O2 Academy.
• February 23rd - Birmingham O2 Academy.
• February 24th - Liverpool O2 Academy.
• February 25ht- Dundee Fat Sam's.

Whilst making the advert the group had to take into consideration the branding of the band and album and to make the poster draw in the audience. This was done by having similar bands touring with 'The Courteeners' and by naming the tour after the song we were shown. we also included a website for the audience to buy the tickets and used similar iconography to what was shown in the video. This is our advert:-

 

I found this exercise useful as it let me understand that audience and the branding of the band is really important for these adverts. I will apply what I have learnt from this for the album advert that we will make.