Thursday, 27 November 2014

Deconstruction of a tour poster - Linkin Park

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 The 2014 tour poster for Linkin Park's 'The hunting party tour' is very different to the previously analysed Slipknot tour poster. This poster is a lot more brighter and eye catching to the audience even though it is only in black and white. The main image on the poster is off of the bands 2014 album 'The Hunting Party'.

 The most central item on the poster is the bands name along with the supporting band's name 'Of Mice & Men'. Unlike on the Slipknot poster the band's do not use their usual typography and instead the poster carries very little on which audiences can recognise the bands by other than their names. For this reason the poster looks very basic and i believe that it would be the opposite for this poster due to the fact that this is not just for a UK tour but for a European tour and so in my opinion the bands should want to make their logo's much bigger and use as much iconography and typography as they can in order to be recognisable to an audience of different languages and cultures.

Furthermore due to the scale of the tour, the Linkin Park poster ,juxtaposed to the Slipknot poster, isn't able to give as much detail about individual venues, resulting from it being a European tour poster. This makes the poster less informative and so it may be less likely to grip a passive audience as they aren't being fed all the necessary information that they may personally require.

In terms of self promotion both of the bands have their logo's and the album covers of their new albums on the bottom of the poster stating that both albums are 'out now'. This is similar to the Slipknot poster however you can see that on this poster both of the bands are being promoted rather than just the headlining band. This may suggest that there is a positive relationship between the two bands and so they would like to help promote each other as much as possible. The final piece of promotion is the link to both of the bands websites in very small text at the bottom of the poster.

Finally, unlike on the Slipknot poster there is no unrequired information such as who is presenting the tour of the two bands and who has booked them. This will make the poster easier to digest for audiences as they wont have to scan through as much unnecessary information.

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