First draft of magazine advert

My initial magazine idea was taken from the research done, and what I thought would look good upon the first look at what I had to compare with eachother. I decided to copy the style for layout and appearance from the advert "Skuff" by DJ Nappa. My reason for this was because of it's simplicity, with a box in the top half of the page for the main information for the release and some artwork/logo placed inside it. I did attempt it to look similar to my DVD Digipak, here it is;

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It looks nice because of the simplicity, but I feel that if I continued with this style to complete my magazine advert, that it would not be effective enough for a promotional advert, because of how plain it looks from a first glance. For my next attempt I will try to replicate some of the ideas from Flavour magazine, as there is more going on within the adverts in comparison to that of those I copied from in Big Smoke for this first attempt.