Cry Baby-Spanish Essay

For assignment 2 of my media studies, i choose to analyse a famous singer called Melanie Martinez; I analysed one of her music videos, her official webpage and one of her tour posters. I also chose to create my own rock band and create a webpage for them. I also did the first draft of a 2 page magazine article for them and a 16 shot storyboard of one of their videoclips.
I chose Melanie Martinez because she’s a growing artist between people of my age (12 - 18) and her style is really unique. She has lots of videos describing the life of Cry Baby, which i’m going to explain in the pop video section. She also tries to interact with her followers using social media and tries to expand her music to other countries. She represents girls as fragile

In this poster, Melanie stands out in contrast of the pastel vanilla background. The predominant color in this poster is turquoise and skin color. The color turquoise is associated with meanings of refreshing, feminine, calming, sophisticated, wisdom, serenity, wholeness, and loyalty. She uses this to state that she is old enough to be responsible and she also uses makeup to give power to this.
On the other side,melanie uses teddy bear associated with cutesy, girlyness, innocence and wonder. this is a codified expression and a binary opposition. she tries to look innocent but sexual at the same time. but this is just on the outside since only when you listen to her songs, you will realise she’s a serial killer and a psychopath but only by looking at her images she looks calm and attracting, which supports the idea of the killer trying to attract her prey with pretty and innocent faces. the age group of melanie can be told only by looking at this head shot of her. her main audience is teenagers and people up to her age which is 22. She has the tour dates behind a turquoise background, which matches her hair color and contrast the white color of the letters. She also advertises her Cry Baby album in the corner of the poster being that the album that contains nearly all the songs of the tour and telling her audience that the album can be purchased on her