Magazines

Our final stage of this course is to design our own whole page magazine advert. The only difficulty for me is that I don't tend to read magazines much, and I have no ideas as to what magazines would contain the genre that my artist is involved around. This meant that I would need to do some research, which I did.

On the internet it's very hard to actually find magazine adverts that you can use, let alone ones that are in the genre you are looking for. I did manage to find a good one referenced by a student at 'Long road media', of mainstream artist Jay-Z, for his new album, Blueprint 3.

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(http://04musicvideo09.blogspot.com/2009/09/magazine-advert-analysis.html)

This advert is VERY plain, the use of a few lines of text, and his website. It's purpose is simply to inform people that his album is soon to be released, and that's all you would need to know, Jay-Z is one of the most well-known artists of rap in this generation.

I don't intend on creating a magazine advert by following this style, because simply it has no major impact and doesn't attract so much attention as there isn't alot going on. If my artist was well known, then maybe it could be a useful idea, but when he isn't, it's a good idea to bring across some new style with the advert to gain popularity for him.

While doing my research for magazines where I can find detailed examples of adverts to help me gain some more ideas, I came across several magazines which would be ideal. A few of them include;
Flavour, Big Smoke, Big Up, ReWind.

I was able to get my hands on two of these, and one of them includes a digital version of the magazine online which I will be looking into. Over the next few days I will write up some information about them that I have researched, as I have purchased two magazines, from Big smoke and Big up, which came today.