Artist Information

Artist/Band name: Marseille

Album name: Oblivion

Album songs:

1. Bitter Kisses
2. Love Night
3. Sail
4. You & Me 
5. Reckless Youth
6. Opposite
7. The Draw
8. Oblivion
9. Rough Diamond
10. Unicorn Blood
11. White Lies
12. Flashing Lights
13. Numbers

My Magazine Advert:

My Magazine Advert In Progress:

My magazine advert photo is an edited primary photo taken of the location of my wood scene in my music video. I have edited this photo on 'Windows Live Photo Gallery' by using tools to change the 'Contrast' and 'Colour Situation'. My inspiration of these photos for my magazine advert have been taken from official magazine ads like Kings of Leon, The Verve and Coldplay (which i have posted on my blog earlier) here are 3 possible photos i could use:

I have chosen this photo:

My mag ad so far (first initial stages):

Progress 1: As you can see i am using 'Adeobe Photoshop' to make my magazine advert for my album. I have cropped my initial photo, i have added a 'App Store' at the bottom to show realism and the importance of digital technology when advertising. And i have written the release date as 'August 2014'.

Progress 2:

To make it look more realistic i have added 'NME ****'. This adds to the representation of the magazine being real and of a alternative rock genre due to the connection with the NME magazine which is a popular music magazine with that particular genre. Just from this the audience will donnotate the genre representation.

Progress 3:

Here i have changed the fonts of 'NME' and 'The new album...' to black so they stand out against the background, they also create continuity by matching the band name. I have changed the contrast on the background on Photoshop and changed the colour situation and negativity to make it look more faded and abstract. I have also added the bands name at the top, by copying it from Dafont.com and by using the 'Quick Selection Tool' i was able to just keep the black text and get rid of the white background surrounding it.

Progress 4 and final product:

I have added the album name 'Oblivion' which on photoshop i again used the 'Quick Selection Tool' so i was able to just get the black text. I got the text from Dafont.com which is called 'Araul' compared to the background it looks faded but i like this contrast as it fits with the faded photo on the background which makes it look abstract.

Magazine Album Adverts:

These are a couple of magazine album adverts which will influence the creation of mine:

CD template:

My digipak template: 

Here is the overall link i have got my templates from: http://www.discwizards.com/cd-dvd-artwork-templates.htm

Here is a link to my CD digipak template http://www.discwizards.com/templates/digipak6Panel2CD-DW.pdf which i will be using to create my album from.

As you can see it is a standard 6 panel digipak template which a lot of CDs will be made from.

My CD:

http://www.discwizards.com/templates/DiscOnbody-DW.pdf

Ancillary texts:

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the options:

•A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);

•A magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package). 

Font text for ancillary texts:

For the font i have looked on a website called dafont.com which provide a wide range of fonts and here are some possible fonts i could use for my ancillary texts: 

Fonts i may use for the Artist Name: 

I have chosen these fonts for the Artist name due to their abstract view and how catching they look - i imagine if they were on an album cover it would fit the representation of alternative rock genre due to the fact they are unusual and different. My favorite is 'Blake'.

Fonts i may use for the album name: 

For the album name i want the text to look simple and plain - which will stand out against the artist name. This has been inspired by other alternative rock genre album covers. The album name font will also be used for the tracks on the back of the album.

Possible Ancillary Text Photos:

I have chosen these primary pictures taken from the woods location featured in the music video as possible ancillary text photos. I have chosen these photos to give off an abstract view on my album, this idea is taken from the influencing/inspiring original album covers (also featured on my blog) to connote the alternative rock genre to the audience.

Inspiring from Bastille's album/single covers: