Magazine Advert - Planning

For our magazine advert we have planned to have an image of the band turning away and looking into a black background which would merge into the image of the footsteps, which is the band's stand out image for the album. The footsteps will be the same picture that will be on the album - which makes the connection between the two instantly and would better advertise the debut album.
We based the image we want to use on this photo we found and put on our pitch:

Since we wanted the band to only appeal to its own niche audience chose to use an image similar to this one as it hides the image identity for a large extent, but also allows the fans to have some form of recognition with them.

We wanted the advert to be as simple as possible, but found a number of things were common on the poster, such as star ratings, a large band image, where and when to buy the album and perhaps also tour dates. With all these aspects together the image may not be as simple as planned.