1. Richard Stockley
Music Poster Analysis #1
This poster is a promotion for Bon Iver’s 2009 concert at the Fox theatre in
California.
The image is of a heart but the heart is made out of a guitar this is to show that they
are the heart of music and if you love music, you must see this concert. Bon Iver’s
main instrument is an acoustic guitar which we can tell as it is the only instrument
pictured which shows a cutural code as the image of an acoustic guitar tells the
audience that he is an acoustic singer/songwriter
It is very minimalistic as it only has the one image and it isn’t detailed at all, this
could be from a possible art movement. There is only just a little bit of writing stating
the band, supporting band, the date and location. The font used is simple and bold and
by it being separated from the central image, when you look at the poster, it brings
attention to the text but it still makes almost all the attention onto the central image.
The colours used are beige and dark red, the red is used on the central image and font
to bring focus towards them, the background is a bland beige colour to keep the focus
the background itself
This poster has a semantic code in it as it connotes that Bon Iver’s music is simple
and comes from the heart, this is a clever way to show the audience his genre as well