Music Poster Analysis

By Anzelika Ceculina, 13T

Purpose of this poster is to advertise the concert which will be held on December 9 and 10th at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Genre of this poster is pop music, because lady gaga is a pop singer.

This poster features famous singer, Lady GagaHer pose and characters that surround her are looking up at her which suggests her power and dominance, she also looks more outstanding out of everyone, because of her outfit and fancy looks.

Colour palette of this poster has shades of gold and silver.

The main title is bold highlighted in white on the black background which makes the text stand out. The font is simple and easy to read for everybody.

Right at the bottom of the poster you can spot the website dedicated to Lady Gaga and page on myspace.com where you can follow her.

This poster also advertises her Album which will be in stores, November 24th. This small advertisement could make audience want to buy it.

To go to the concert you can buy tickets at livenation.com which is in a ticket shaped box.

This is a music video poster ‘’Telephone’’ starring Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. The genre of this poster is pop and the dress codes of dress conveys the mood of the song. The poster is telling us the narrative of the music video and what may happen in the actual music video.

The title has a 3D effect which makes the text stand out, the main photograph of Lady Gaga and Beyonce is behind it. The poster also features where the story will hold place which is the café called ‘’DINER, home style cooking’’

Environment and fence behind the girls gives a western atmosphere and tangled, spiky wires that are often used for prohibited places and prison the connotation of which might be that the girls will probably do something naughty.

This poster features the main singers; Lady Gaga and Beyonce

The title ‘’Telephone’’ links to the main image. Because girls are holding phones in their hands as if communicating with each other.

The poster has below a list of people who participated in production of this music video. Also it shows on the right corner a producer, Jonas Akerlund by who the movie was by.

The colours of this posters are very bright and eye-catching. Yellow colour in the title is matching with the car. The layout of this poster is very girly and the singers are wearing a heavy flashy make-up.

This is a promotional poster for a music video, Teenage Dream sung by Katy Perry.

The colours of this poster have shades of blue, pink and purple which might target the audience, teenagers and girls, because of colour pink. The presence of colour blue can also mean that the poster is targeted at both genders.The main image behind the text features the singer, Katy Perry who is wearing a bright coloured top, wig and make-up. The environment she is in is almost dreamlike, because of the soft colours and lighting. Katy is also looking up at something, not giving an eye-contact to the audience.

Purpose of this poster is to encourage people to see the music video, the poster also can have a promotional purpose, because it can be used on different products like on CD cover for instance.

This poster has a limited amount of text and detail, so it looks more simplified and focuses only on important parts like the title, singer name and the main character. By looking at the poster, audience can predict what will happen in the clip and what it will be about.

Unfortunately, this poster doesn’t show any information about the producer and company that released this clip. The image is a medium close-up shot and the title

‘’Teenage Dream’’ may refer to teenagers who want to have fun, meet friends, have relationships and go to the parties, because this is mostly what teenagers want to do nowadays.