First Poster
I drew inspiration from several of her songs including the lyrics, music videos, and costumes. The album is about taking a journey into “Chromatica”, female empowerment, self-forgiveness, and healing from pain.
I layered up and shadowed in different aspects to give a sense of leading into another world. The two faces are of Gaga’s iconic profile gazing at one another as if to recognise one's past and current mentality.
Costume-wise, her music videos for Stupid Love, Rain On Me, and others show her wearing mainly structured, and spiked hot pink, purple and black pleather. Hence I have used these textures throughout the layers. Her costume in Stupid Love shows a variety of visors which I have recreated with a strobed iridescent layer. Lastly, her tears and eye makeup in Rain On Me have been pulled out which also defines Gaga’s facial details.
The first layer is a nod to the opening of Babylon with the paint dripping up Gaga’s face and a gradient turnover for Rain on Me ft Ariana Grande.
In the second layer, I have placed black twisted branches like that of the main Chromatica branding imagery. Instead, they rise and change into blood vessels which were inspired by the tubing in the music video Rain On Me.
I have used mountainous imagery in the seventh layer to acknowledge the planet scenery in the video for Stupid Love. I have created a layer for the stormy sky for Rain On Me.
And last but not least, the last layers moving down are the shape of a womb with the hued ovaries sitting on top to symbolise Free Woman and acknowledge Gaga’s survival through sexual assault.
Second Poster
The album “Chromatica” delves into female empowerment, self-forgiveness, and healing from pain. Rain on me especially communicates how LADY GAGA has dealt with past trauma and how she can relate to Ariana Grande similarly.
I recreated the image of LADY GAGA’s iconic face as the graphical multilayered pose giving a strong stance and showing acceptance of who she is. The tears running down from her face are representative of how she has cried in floods and drank alcohol over past pain but they are also symmetrical to show how her emotions are mirrored within Ariana Grande. The patterns within are a nod to Ariana’s butterfly wings but also water droplets. Costume-wise, in her many of her Chromatica music videos not just Rain On Me, show her wearing mainly structured, and spiked hot pink, purple and black pleather. Hence I have used this texture on the top layers.
The background of the poster is made up of two parts. I have used the lyrics as a graphic mask and within them exposed a stormy, rainy sky with fantasy stars to follow the style of the sci-fi, utopia album and then merged down into a cityscape and wet concrete to reflect her music video. Between the text is a gradient turnover for when the camera angles flip between LADY GAGA and Ariana Grande. Last but not least - the daggers are symbolic of LADY GAGA’s traumas. I have created these in an electric neon glow to show that power can come from dealing with pain.