Foals posters- David Manning

This is an album poster for the Foals the band who came up with the song we have chosen to make a music video cover to. I thought that it was important to look at their poster because we have to have the same basic principles to meet the codes and conventions.

Here are a few key points...

• The main colour scheme is masculine, which suggests that the poster is aimed towards men.



• The poster looks damaged with white marks all over it. This helps the poster become retro as its looking dated yet has a modern look. It also shows that the band is rebellious as it doesn't mind looking rough and damaged.



• The name "Foals" is in bold, this helps the audience who hasn't heard of the band before know the name of the band and the name of the album.



• The main focus is on the sand timer, which relates to the album name "Total life forever". This then is kept interesting as the timer has two pictures that are the same of a man walking with mountains in the background, because this has the same picture in the timer it relates to the album name, as its trying to refer to life is never over because the timer cant run out. This unique smart idea also gives away the genre for indie, because most stereotypical album covers have the band members within the poster but the Foals choose to show their identity through being indie different.