Conventions of ancillary tasks - Posters/adverts

 This first poster or magazine article is for Blink 182's Neighbourhoods album. This band are in the same genre (rock) as our chosen unsigned band Scar and show a lot of similarities in song types, especially our chosen song "As long as you know". looking at the poster we can judge what the conventions of a rock genre poster are. The main picture is usually the album cover, but not always, in this case it is and therefore links the poster to the album instantly, in the cases of posters that don't have the album cover the picture or theme of the poster will be linked to a specific song or theme that the band have. The colouring of the poster is a contrasting black and white, black background, black and white art piece and white text to differentiate from the black background. The text is usually large and easily seen and usually is all in a font that the band use often and again will be featured on the album cover for the CD or digipack. Main information included is the title of the album, "the new album from" or " The debut album form", shows a specific song that is featured and the date on which it is released. (also record labels etc are usually shown at the very bottom and a website for info on the band).

 

 

 This second poster/ magazine articile is for Kasabian and their debut album "Kasabian". This band also follow in the rock genre however are also tied in with the indie genre, however similar ideas are used. Again much like the previous poster it features the album cover on the front in the centre. The colour scheme is again the contrasting colours of black and white, again black background, album cover in black as white as featured on the the CD or digipack available and white text to contrast against the background colour. The layout is slightly different, this time some text is at the top instead of all at the bottom, however the text is virtually exactly the same, "Featuring ..." etc.

looking at these posters we gain an idea of the basic layout and structure and common colour schemes and text that is included, research that will definitely influence our final product.




This is a promotional poster for Green days Uno, Dos,Tres tour. It is slightly diffferent to the others as it is promoting a tour and not an album, however similar concepts are used. Big text used to show the name of the band, this time colour is used with the green however the black and white appear again.The picure this timeis of the band, again this is conventional of rock music posters, many others use a band shot every now and then.