Posters

 All artists will have at some point a variety of posters promoting them, wether it'll be to promote a new album or a future tour or even a normal poster that you could find in any music shop. 

To be a successful poster it must contain content that clearly belongs in the genre being promoted. For example the colours used in the poster and how you use them are very important, as well as the colours used I must be sure to use fitting fonts and text styles making them stand out and clear to the audience.  

This is an example of a good simple music poster, there is not a lot happening in this example witch is exactly why I think it works. The black fading into the pale blue works great as a background against the pencil and ink drawing used as the man image. Using their house style text makes sure that this product will fit into the rest of their merchandise.


Another one of Nero's posters, this is a poster poster promoting a concert. The only thing that these two posters have in common is the Nero heading, they use the same font as they should throughout their work wether it be on albums or merchandise. Also the text seems to be in around the same area as the last one, this could be a house style choice to do this. I could see why, placing the main text on the lower third of the poster leaves plenty of space above for photographs, other text or graphical images.

The layout to this poster is very good, the clean clear text  easy to read on the dark background. They have also been sure to use a good font, something easy to read and stands out. As for the background, the really dark colours help the text really jump of the page. How the photograph has been placed on the page is good, using the text in the centre of the page.


























Skrillex has a very recognisable logo and overall style for his posters and album covers, looking at the majority of his posters and covers it seems that he focuses on using graphics in the promotion of his albums/concerts. Looking at these posters its clear that the graphics are very important to his style, I don't think that this particular style will be best for my video.







This is a Deadmau5 poster, as you can see it has a strong difference compared to the Skrillex and Nero posters. It has a lot more comic based graphics and the colours used help make the poster fit right into the house style. I do like this style and I think that I could be very good at creating something like this. This will most probably be the sort of poster I will be using to form my own.

The Effects Debate

The media effects debate is a long standing question over how influential the media is towards the people exposed to it. An easy example is the question – does watching violent movies make the viewers violent?

The majority of music videos today have some sort of content that a high percentage of viewers may find to be inappropriate or offensive, this is normally the elder generation. The majority of elder viewers of these videos feel that they can give off the wrong example to younger viewers and make them want to copy the actions of the artist/artists in the videos. This has always been the case, from going back to the 50's and the birth of Rock n Roll. 

But going back to the purpose of this post it isn't just the content of the song that seems to bother people now, it is also the content of the videos. 
Marilyn Manson is a big example for the effects debate, his videos are inappropriate and I can clearly see how some people would be outraged with their children being exposed to him. But all the aggression towards him and his music from viewers come from the fear of their children thinking they should act like this.