Poster Evaluation

We all had some idea about the design of our poster, but before we started doing it we did some research on different kinds of band posters, in order to know what information needed to be on there. We found out that most of the band posters had mainly images of the band and the band name on them so that is what we started doing. We then realized that only bands which had already established their image really managed to just put their name on it, but since our poster was an advert for their debut album we had to put some additional information on there.

This is a poster of a band which is already pretty well known, and is therefore just advertising itself rather than their debut album. Except for the band name and the three band members there is no information of there and the style is established purely through the costumes worn by the band members and the colour scheme of the poster.

This is the type of poster we are going for. It advertises her new album, tells the audience a little bit about what it is, where it is sold and at the bottom it lists all the copy rights.  The problem we will have with that is mainly due to the design element, as our poster is already quite busy and I think to many labels might ruin it a bit aesthetically. I will however try to adjust it in order to fit the titles in. Similarily to us the poster reflects the design of the album cover and reminds the audience what was being advertised.

This is another album release poster, this time by George Michael. Apart from a picture of him on the front, selling the album itself, it tells us a bit of imnformation about the album (i.e. what it is featuring) and when It is going to be in stores.

For our album cover, we tried to stick with a similar theme, of having a recognisable design on the poster. We did this so the audience would link the album and the poster once they had seen it. The background for the poster is the same as the one for the digipak just that we had to duplicate it and flip it so it would fill up the screen and merge together. Then we put the stencils of the band members on there and arranged them at the top. Once I had done that I realized that the change between the stencils and the background doesn't look good so I changed it into having the images 'drip' down. I did this by using the light beams which we had already used before, and using selective colour to turn them white. Then I turned them upside down and erased part which weren't needed and ended up with the dripping effect on the photos.

Then I put in the title which we already used on our CD cover and wrote below 'Their new Album featuring 'Electric Feel' / In Stores December 12th'. Then at the bottom I put in the EMI logo and the copyrights small print which we already had on our digipak.

Overall I'm really happy with our poster and I think that I works in terms of representing the band for the debut album. I like the simplicity of it, but I wish we hadn't needed to put in anything apart from the band and album title. I think however that the solution we have found for this works well and it still looks good.