Tour Poster

When creating our tour poster we were influenced by famous examples such as Regina Spektor’s:

It is Regina’s tour poster that inspired me to use black and white for ours. I think by using black and white together it creates an image of sadness and loss which could suggest the genre of artist that the tour poster belongs to. As Regina Spektor is an acoustic artist like Lucy, we decided that by using black and white on our tour poster we would be sticking to the codes and conventions of a typical, appealing tour poster. We also loved the font that is used here, and decided that we wanted a swirly font that would make the audience notice our tour poster straight away.

The text we decided to use for ‘Bella Diem’ is very fancy and elegant, which I feel will be useful in drawing attention to our tour poster. The colour black is extremely simple but is a powerful bold colour that symbolizes the dominance of Lucy in the acoustic genre. The colour black also goes well with the simplicity of our tour poster and is overpowering for the audience.

The image of Lucy that we decided to use on our tour poster is very striking. Lucy isn’t looking at the camera, instead she is looking downwards. This could show that she is a mysterious artist who wishes to hide her identity; this will draw the audience into wanting to watch her but could also show her vulnerability and femininity. I also think that this will attract both a male and female audience as Lucy is wearing a leotard and is showing a lot of skin, this I feel breaks the codes and conventions of an acoustic tour poster. As unlike Regina Spektor’s we have decided to use quite a seductive image of our artist instead of using a cartoon or image to represent her. I feel this works better as it widens our target audience and also makes our tour poster look more attractive and by using an image of her our audience will be able to recognise her straight away.  

When researching popular venues for acoustic artist to perform these were what we found. We feel that we have picked the best suited for our artist and have created a believable tour poster for our genre of music. I love the contrast of red and black on our tour poster because in my opinion the colour red suggests passion, love and femininity and the colour black is a powerful, dominant and masculine colour which will help our artist appeal to everyone.