Magazine Advert Draft 1 Feedback

I decided to begin producing my magazine advertisement due to the fact that I now feel I have enough narrative in my footage to begin my ancillary tasks. Below are the stages i went through in creating my music magazine advertisement:

This was the photograph I thought would work best for my magazine advertisement as it reflects a lot about the music video and the message that it ends out.

I then blacked out the background as it made the image look less professional so having  a plain background made it feel more like it was taken at professional photo shoot. I took the black background idea from examples in my magazine advert evaluation post - one of Coldplay's adverts had a black background and it rally helped bring the foreground into focus. I also thought creating my own magazine name and logo would enhance the fact that it belongs in a magazine. TTN stands for 'Top Tunes Now' however it wouldn't need to be mentioned anywhere on the advert as it would be irrelevant. Also, I wanted to create an orange glow over the image to mimic the bokeh light effect i have included over moving images in my music video. 

I wasn't sure where to go next, so I asked my class piers (who also happen to be in the age group of my target audience) what they thought would look good regrading the text for the advert. Here is what they said after looking at my existing product evaluation of music magazine adverts: 

Emily: "I think you should make the orange much brighter and make it look like the orange lights you have in your music video/"

I thought that this was some good feedback to take into account due to the fact that I want top create continuity between all of my products so that they all look as though they are linked and belong to the same artist. 

Beth: "The writing should be white because music magazines tend to have solid colours like b;lack white and red, and it would also contrasts the black background really well"

This was something i was also considering in regards to the text, so I took it on board for my next draft. 

David: "It might be an idea to put the writing over him because if you have it all on the black background it will look squashed and the guy in the image will look like he's taking up too much space when he doesn't need to"

This also seemed like a good idea as there sin't much black background to use for the writing, so putting the writing over the image can take up some unused space.