Thirty Seconds To Mars - 'This Is War' Promotional Poster Analysis

On this promotional poster for Thirty Seconds To Mars’ song, ‘This Is War’, the view of the band is from the perspective of a military-issue telescopic lens of some kind. The entire image has an overlaying image which has lots of very fine, faded black lines -- this is to make the lens’ perspective look more authentic. This is an effect that I more-than-likely will use on my poster, as mine will be military-themed as well.

As well as this, the poster has a solid-coloured bar across it. I have seen a lot of posters with these bars on them. The bar fills out the poster, and draws attention to the title of the song that the poster is promoting. I was already planning to put a bar across my poster.

Welcome to 'A2'

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

a website homepage for the band;

a digipak for the album’s release;

a magazine advertisement for the digipak.

In ‘A2’ Media, I will be researching a wide range of music videos which are related to the genre of my selected track (‘Alternate Rock’). Once I have done an adequate amount of research, I will be directing and producing my own ‘Alternate Rock’ music video for my selected track. Along with the video, I will be creating a promotional package consisting of a digipak, and a poster, for the band.

My track: listen to ‘for Richard’ on Audioboo