Mock Magazine Advert

An an activity to prepare for the coursework, we were asked to create a mock magazine advert for a artist that was given to us and we had to relate the advert to the genre and the artist. This task was fairly easy because it was easy to find the general conventions of specific genres and apply them to a magazine advert. For my magazine advert i was given a country duo called Billy & Jane. To make it as generic as possible i had a look at different country artists to see what type of clothes they wore and what kind of environment they are typically in. I found that most country music videos are either in a barn, a canyon or a small desert in places down south in the USA so that is why i chose the canyon for the background. I decided to use this picture because it was a couple, which it needed to be and they were wearing the generic type of clothes that country singers wear which is shirts, leather and hats. You can clearly see that these aspects are shown in this magazine article that i have created which fits its purpose and makes it look good.


This has helped me because it's bettered my knowledge of generic conventions in specific genres and its helped me be able to pick out generic conventions of specific genres and apply them to a magazine advert which is what i am going to need for my actual coursework.

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