This poster advertises the Green Day album "American Idiot". It uses a minimalist design with only the album title and a mysterious image - a bleeding heart-shaped grenade held in a white hand. This ambiguous imagery and lack of other details about the album generate intrigue and discussion, promoting word-of-mouth advertising.

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Analysis

2. This poster is for the album ‘American Idiot’ by the British band ‘Green Day’ which was released in
2004 which we can then assume is when this poster was advertised. The poster is very simplistic,
it does not contain a lot of writing and only has one picture. The only words on the poster are
‘Green Day Presents American Idiot’, the poster does not contain any other information about the
album, like hit singles on it, or release dates, which could be commonly seen on other posters.
This could be a marketing technique to make people who are both diehard fans of Green Day and
those who don’t know them at all to start to talk and look into the release of this album, the mystery
of this album could be used to create a spread of the album by word of mouth as people will be
asking when it is coming out or what songs are on it.
The image that has been used on the poster is the exact same one that was used on the album
and the rest of the poster is an exact copy of the album cover, except sized down to fit on a CD
album. The image is a of a hand holding a grenade that is in the shape of a love heart and is also
bleeding, the contrast from the blood red colouring of the grenade, to the black background and the
white hand makes the red stand out and in this situation the red could connote love and danger or
pain. Love because it is a heart and the ‘American Idiot’ could be just a boy who could break
someone's heart, which would explain the violence that the grenade connotes, it could be
suggesting that there is some sort love or heartbreak.

3. This poster is for the album ‘Sigh No More’ by Mumford and Sons, this was released in 2009
so the poster is around 7 years old. There are four main images on the poster, each one of a
different member of the band. There is (for a poster) quite a bit of writing at the bottom of the
poster, and a small amount at the top.
The images are of each member of the band, holding the instrument that they use, the pictures
are edited to have two pictures in one, the picture of the member has had its opacity taken
down so you can see the background of the image which two out of the four images have
pictures of the group together in a field in the background. The genre of Mumford and Sons is
folk indie so these type of pictures work well with the genre as they sort of look like polaroid
pictures, which is big in the indie world. The images give th effect that they are in some sort of
picture album or scrapbook which gives the impressions that they are memories that should be
looked after and cherished.
The name of the album, ‘Sigh No More’ is interesting, it could be suggesting that the band
have had enough with something and they are going to embrace it or they are going to start
ignoring something as it makes them annoyed and makes them sigh. The bottom of the poster
has a quote from NME which is a credible source for music critique so it can be a trusted
quote. The poster also includes three songs which are included in the album, ‘Little Lion Man’,
‘Winter Winds’ and ‘The Cave’ theses would have been their most popular songs at the time
and that is the reason they are the ones that are placed on the poster. The album cover is very
different from this poster when you look at them side by side, there is another poster for this
album and that is the one that is the same as the actual album cover.

4. Jessie J’s album ‘Who You Are’ was released in 2011 and this is when this poster would have also
been released. The main image is of Jessie J and it is close up shot of Jessie J and this takes up two
thirds of the poster space. Jessie J is looking directly into the camera and it and this creates a direct
connection with the audience and makes them feel like Jessie J is looking directly at them, this gives
them pressure to look at the rest of the