Poster: Finished!

Poster 1:

 Poster 2:

These are the final posters we have designed to go alongside our music video and album cover.

We took our inspiration from existing posters within magazines, identifying the key conventions and embedding them onto our background. Firstly, we added the image and played around with the positioning a bit. Then once we were happy with the layout, we added the tour dates alongside John Newman's web address and social network links. At the bottom, we added a small promotion for the 'Love Me Again' album, below which we put the ticket offices website and contact details in small print. 

We ended up drafting two album covers to demonstrate that you don't always have to use the exact image for both articles, which is something we noticed in our research. Within both posters, you can still recognise that they are for the dance genre due to the use of bold, vibrant colours and contrasts. However, I do prefer the first poster to the second one personally. I like the way it fades into the background and makes eye contact with the audience; it just seems like a stronger, more powerful image to me. 

We are really pleased with the result of our posters; it is a huge relief to see all of our hard work come together. 

Final Video

Here is the final cut of our music video for Love Me Again.      

Artist Research: John Newman Early Life & Career

John Newman grew up in Settle in the Yorkshire Dales. At the age of fourteen, he started to play the guitar which led him to begin writing his own songs. Naturally, he soon learnt how to record and produce musical content himself. He used this skill to create his own house tracks and did some freelance DJ'ing to gain even more experience.

When he was 20, Newman moved to London and started his own band who took part in many live gigs at a range of venues. Following this, he was spotted and signed by Island Records and produced, 'Love Me Again' as his debut single.

In May 2012, he featured in the established pop/dance group, Rudimental's single, 'Feel The Love' which reached number one in the UK charts. He then featured as the vocals in their second collaboration for the song, 'Not Giving In' during November 2012.

Now he was beginning to be recognised as an artist, he released his own single, 'Love Me Again' which peaked at number 1 in the UK charts in July 2013. Following the successof this, he released, 'Cheating' in October from his debut studio album, Tribute. He has immensely grown as an artist and become increasingly popular within the music industry in a short space of time which demonstrates the potential he has as an artist.