Magazine advert first draft!

We looked through all the pictures we took at the photo shoot and decided what one we wanted to use for our magazine advert.

The picture

(Stage 1 - the original picture)

We choose this picture for many reasons and think it is perfect for our advert! The pose in this picture is one of my favourites as we look like a typical girl band and our poses are all very similar but a little bit different. We also look united as a group and our facial expressions are inviting which will hopefully persuade people to buy the single. The woods in the background looks particularly nice in this picture with the large tree positioned nicely behind us. The lighting in the picture is very good as it looks like a warm autumn day which it certainly wasn't when we shot.

Editing

We began editing this picture by playing around with different brightnesses and contrasts to see if it looked better. We knew that when wanted the picture to look slightly edited so we cropped the image, taking a lot of the woods away at the sides. After playing around with colours, we had an idea to have the background in black and white and us in colour as it will make the advert look interesting. As we were using the photo shop on the schools computer none of us were really familiar with how to use it. Although luckily Charlotte does photography and is therefore an expert at photo shop unlike me, Laura and Sophie who have no idea! Charlotte showed us roughly how this would like and we really liked it so so have agreed this is what we will do. As Charlotte is more familiar with the photo shop she has on her computer at home, she agreed to take the picture home and do this editing for us. We were really grateful for this as it took a very long time. We made the black and white background as dark as possible to make the colours of our shirts and the font stand out as much as possible.

(Stage 2 - the picture Charlotte took home to change into colour)

The next thing we did was the wording, this was pretty simple as we already had a clear idea in our heads of what we wanted. We found a girly italic font straight away and decided to use it for the band name and single title. We tried the wording in different colours but the coral colour looked best as it matched the colours of our shirts. After trying the text in different positions, we agreed we wanted to keep it minimal with the main focus being on the picture of us rather than the text. That is why we had the song title placed in the bottom left in a small size. We also decided to have 'now available for purchase and download in selected stores' shown at the bottom to make it look more like an song advert.

The finished 1st draft

(Stage 3 - The final image)

Here is the first draft complete after Charlotte took the picture home to continue editing. She did a really good job as the photo shopping is not noticeable at all! The brightness of our shirts really stands out which we were really happy about as that was what we really wanted. Charlotte changed the text at the bottom slightly to a more standard font which makes it easier to read. She also added in some pictures of shops that the single could be purchased from. This is the advert that we will be presenting to the rest of our class on Friday 4th March!