Poster Research

As Nero have not produced any promotional posters before we have had to start from scratch in researching this ancillary task.

These are some general music posters that we have found. It seems the more modern a band/singer you try to find the harder it gets, which suggests posters as a promotional tool in the music world are becoming somewhat outdated.

These examples clearly show a preference towards black and white pictures, however this could possibly be down to the age of the bands and the technology that was available at the time of production?

Another noteable convention though, is how the picture, which is often the singers, is by far the most prominent feature. Text features on all of the posters, though it is merely the name of the group/singer and is rather insignificant compared to the picture.

Colour is included on the last two posters however there are reasons for both. The colours in the Bob Marley poster are an obvious cultural reference to his Caribbean heritage. The pink text on The Ramones poster is simply this colour because it is more recognisable to their audience.

The backgrounds of the posters vary, from plain black backgrounds to greyscale city views.

All of these conventions will be useful in helping us produce our poster. None of these however are for the genre of music that are track is, dubstep, and so we will now endeavour to find some genre specific examples.