Ancillary Texts - Magazine Poster (Tour Dates) and The Design Process

The Tour Dates Poster consists of features relating both to the CD design, and also the music video. For instance, the Poster contains a background filled with stars - this relates to the CD's Front and Back Cover. Furthermore, the Front and Back Cover are displayed on the Final Version of the Poster. This allows us to advertise multiple products for the band. In addition, the images of the band used were also used in the music video: this is our attempt at connecting the two products together.

To see the design features - look below:

Band Images Used:






Original Magazine Idea:



Tour Dates Poster

We decided on using this poster rather than the other one for a few main reasons. The first one is that it contains all the band members from the music video whilst the previous one only contains three out of the four. The second reason is that it contains the images we used for the front and the back of the cd cover, because of this it reminds people that there is also a CD so that they might consider going and buying it as well as making it a package rather than just three separate pieces of media. The final reason is that we believe that the layout and overall design is a lot nicer than the other one.

In addition, we've decided to add Social Networking sites to the poster. This way we're able to direct fans to one website for constant updates. Furthermore, we could potentially gain more fans, as they might look at the website's and decide they like the music or personality of the band.