11.Album Poster (by David Wegierski)

Here is the album poster representing the artist Trey Songz and his music. He is a male hip hop artist the code and convention is the stereotype that most black male artists are normally naked to the waist, to show their tattoos and muscles. The artist might be naked to the waist down in order to show his tattoos that may reveal another story or a memory. The picture/background represents the rough environment, this may represent his songs. The red marks on the background in front of their rapper may represent blood therefore violence in the environment that the artist is currently in. The reflection of the artist in the framed mirror shows that the artist has a different posture. However the actual album cover that the artist uses for music has the picture of the artist in the reflection. We can see that the font used in the album poster and the album cover is pretty much the same. Also the album poster is in a black and white filter to represent the environment and the music that the artist produces. The artist could also be in a dark place since most of his body is in shade. The whole album is very dark and mysterious showing violence and a rough environment. 

Another poster that I have decided to analyse was a Calvin Harris poster. This is slightly different form the Trey Songz poster as it provides much more information, it shows the date of the next concert, contact information, address and etc. Here we have a picture of the artist right in in the upper middle position. The artist is dressed very formally and stereotypically for white man in his 30s. The background creates an atmosphere like the artist is at a concert/party judging by the blue flashing lights behind the artist although the corners of poster are black. The whole poster looks very flashy and shiny, as we can see in the text as well as the background. This might suggest to us that the artists’ music is electric/pop. The “Calvin Harris” title is displayed first from all the other texts to attract the listeners by them being able to see what the poster is about just by looking at it from far away. Then the text goes smaller as it goes down displaying the most important information from the top to the bottom. This is a very important technique when creating an album cover poster because the poster must be able to attract the customers by displaying the most important/attracting title first and then the rest of the information about what the poster is about. The font of the text is very formal and clear to read from far distances