Magazine Advertisement Research (Ancillary task 2)

Magazine Advertisements appear throughout many types of publications. Advertising is one of the main factors that keep magazines maintained; nearly every magazine relys upon revenue from advertisers to stay in business, advertising can make or break a publication. The genre of the magazine usually depicts the genre of the magazine adverts inside. For example in Kerrang a rock magazine, you wouldnt expect to see advertisements of Katy Perry or Lady Gaga. The purpose of a magazine advertisement is to sell/promote the artist. Therefore everything about the ad aims to represent the artists music style, persona or genre of video.

 

 

 

 

CD Digipack Research (Ancillary Task 1)

Music Digipack's

For Ancillary task 1, I have to create a Digipack to promote my music video. A music Digipack is a is a patented style of CD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI-Shorewood and Atlas Holdings LLC company. Digipacks are made out of card stock or heavy paper/card material. They can flip open like a book or three parts, one to the left and one to the right with the CD in the centre piece. Digipacks were first created by MeadWestvaco and there product Digi-Pack was trademarked. This format became popular and began to be used by many manufacturers and the name 'Digipack' began to be used to described any soft CD packaging.

Key Elements of a DigiPack                            

Name of the band/artist                 Picture of artist/band          Colour and Style to fit artists genre
Name of the album                        Barcode                              Adverts
Credits                                           Logo                                   Cardboard sleeve
Bonus Material                              CD logo
Recording information                   Website Banner
Producer
Price