Music posters

Rock

This music of 'The Rolling Stones' a very well known rock band, they grew in success from the 60's through to the 80's, this was their prime time but they continued to make music for years afterwards and they band are still together today.

This is a poster the band used for their 'Vibration' album. The conventions of the Rock genre are shown with its use of colour and font. They use, Black, white, yellow and red. With the font as well it makes the colours and bold font stand out to the audience. The band have used a black and white images of the band which is a classic trait for a rock band. The dark, bold font represents the band in the same way that the rock band is bold, dark and stands out which shows their style as a band, which is effective when promoting Tours or other events the band may have organised. Its displays key information for the public like key dates, the place where it is held, websites etc.

Pop

Taylor Swift is a classic example for a Pop Artist. She promotes her music in a different style, as each album comes out. Her image has a huge fan base because her music is aimed mainly at teenagers and young adults. She does a lot of music relating to relationships and is also very catchy and upbeat. Which are all popular attributes as they are very popular with the public.

This is a poster of Taylor Swift's Red tour promotion poster. She has used key conventions of her album in the poster. The album is called 'Red' so she has some of the writing in red, its simple but its still effective. There isn't too much going on in the poster, its simplicity makes the poster look sophisticated which is appealing to the audience as it makes the audience feel the sma eway when listening to her music.

 

Here shows another example of Katy Perry's 'Prizm' Tour poster. This shows a more stereo typical image of Pop music. The bright colours of the poster make it very eye catching to the public links well to her music as it is quick and catchy, the bright colours of the poster, make the audience remember it more. And it also helps promote the poster because the bright colours on the poster give an idea to the public as to what the tour will be like.

Alternative/Indie

Artic Monkeys are a very stereo typical Indie band. Their music appeals to many members of the public, to men and women. Its particularly popular to see live because they use acoustic songs on their as additions or as an original part of the album. Which is appealing to many members of the public because shows what they are more likely to sound like live.

 The conventions of their genre are the music it diegetic a lot of the time because it often sounds realistic and is often illustrative in their music videos because the narrative of their songs tells a story. This appeals the audience a lot because they can relate to it. Their performance is often displayed to the public with the main singer in the middle at the front, with guitarists either side with and drummer or a DJ behind the main singer. This shows each member of the band has a part which shows how they are all involved.

Hip Hop

Nicki Manaj is a stereo typical artist for the Hip Hop genre because she represents the rap genre but also shows part of pop which also occurs in this genre.

The conventions of this genre in music videos show low angled shots which imply they are powerful  and the audience are looking up to  them. Also a lot of time in Hip Hop music videos there is a crowd of people dancing to the song which shows people having s good time listening to the song which make it easier for the audience to enjoy the song. Also this genre shows a lot of props linking to wealth such as jewellery and  cars which is appealing to the audience.