3.4 - Final CD Advert

I have chosen CD Advert Design#2 for my final piece because I think it looks like an authentic Road Map and also this is the poster with the biggest and clearest lettering. This allows the audience to be immediately struck by the poster and straight away they know what the poster is advertising.
I decided to use the bright yellow and contrasting black and red to use bold block colours to look aesthetically pleasing to an audience.
Yellow can be associated with danger as it is used on road warning signs however it is not percieved as hazardous as that of red. The Yellow represents the band's growth in the music industry and the risk they take in committing themselves to this tough lifestyle choice. Yellow also signifies courage in some cultures, this in turn emphasises the journey through music.
By using the contrasting black and white colours for the text, this represents the two sides to not only the band but the music industry as a whole. They show how versatile the band can be but no matter what they do it works in harmony.

On the poster in the black box on the right hand side I have included quotes from some magazines they have been featured in, this then gives the audience a mini review in order to get a slight understanding of what they can look forward to. This also gives the poster a personal touch and can seem like the band are making more of an effort to reach their audience and to meet their publicist and contractors wants.

To meet the conventions of a CD advert I included the band's publicitiy company, copyright, the price of the album, where it can be bought from, the band and the album's name.

One convention I didn't meet was seeing the band on the poster, I feel that this gives the poster and the band an enigmatic feel and therefore restricts peoples stereotypical judgements of the bands appearance and gives them a better chance of appreciating the music that The Living Daylights make.

Screengrabs.

In this screengrab I was creating the text to go in the red triangle.

Here I was editing the black box filled with reviews.

This is where I was applying one of the band's sponsors logo to the previously applied Speed Camera logo.