Post on 03-Aug-2015
POSTER DECONSTRUCTION#2: Taylor Swift “1989”
The Black and White theme of
the poster links to the theme of the album, “1989” as colour television
for example was a moderately recent
advance in technology.
The red font of ‘Taylor Swift’ stands out on the page from the rest of the poster
because it’s a contrasting colour to
the background. Beneath in grey is
the date of which the album comes out.
Because of the artist’s worldwide fame, the record
label don’t have to put a huge amount
of information on the poster because the likely chances are that the audience already know of
Taylor or her upcoming new
album.
The black and white theme can also
connote the idea of simplicity, possibly
suggesting that Taylor’s new album
has some simple yet very catchy (thus
successful) songs.
The vertical (as opposed to horizontal) album title could be a suggestion to
the audience that the artist is doing something a little different compared to what she’s famed for normally as well as her
rival artists. This could be linked to the fact that
Taylor is now going down the route of mainstream
pop instead of the country style songs she
was famed for beforehand.
The artist’s pose in the photograph is
somewhat suggestive as she has her arms
up to her face and her hips to one side. This
could be imagery suggesting she wants to invite the audience in to listen to her new
album.
The pose could also be suggesting the new style of the artist, showing the
audience how she’s changed and developed
from what they may have originally seen before.