The document analyzes and summarizes several music posters: - The Arctic Monkeys "AM" poster uses a monochrome color scheme and symmetrical design that represents their dark style. It features their logo and a soundwave image to represent their music without using an image of the band. - The Kid Cudi "Man on the Moon 2" poster uses a dark tone with red eyes over the artist to represent a "demon/dark side" influencing the artist. It features an image of the artist in a confined space to create an isolated, trapped feeling. - The Ed Sheeran "+" poster prominently features the album cover image and uses Sheeran's recognizable font and paw print

1. Magazine Poster Analysis
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Jack Bocock

2. Black and House style creates a very stylish
monochrome visual look. This links to the ‘cool’
ideologies that indie music connotes.
Arctic Monkeys logo which they have been used
the duration of their career so far helps link the
poster to their other work.
Soundwaves image links to music and could
represent that the band are all about their music.
No Image of the band has been used, this is
because the Arctic Monkeys are that big they
dont need an image of themselves to promote them
There’s a lot of dead space within the poster
creates quite an abstract arty piece.
Date of album release at the bottom of the poster,
similar to most other music promotion posters.
Everything on the poster is extremely symmetrical
and looks visually pleasing to the eye.
The monochrome colour scheme also
represents the arctic monkeys much dark style
which they have recently changed to.
The bands name is bigger than the album.
I think this because the albums name isn't the
selling point where as the name of the band is.
The sound wave image is also used on
the front of their album ‘AM”. This automatically
links the poster to the album/digipak.
The image has also been created with the
text ‘AM’ in the middle. Time and effort
has gone into to create this stylish main image
Arctic Monkeys - AM

3. Black and red background creates an extremely
dark tone to the poster. Maybe connoting how dark
the album is inside.
Red eyes placed over the top of the artist
looking straight towards the audience
represent a demon/dark side controlling
the artist. Maybe the harsh industry he is in?
Grainy texture has been overlaid to make the
poster look like an old leaflet or film poster.
Image of the actual artist sitting on a chair
in a dark wooden room looking down
at the floor shows his emotions.
Hardly any dead space, the space
of the poster has been used carefully and
productively.
The album credits and record labels have been
presented like the poster is advertising a film instead of
a music album.
The artist is wearing a suit. Represents the slick fashionable
connotations of the R&B, hip-hop genre.
The lighting showing the artist sat down
acts as a mouth for the demon eyes above him.
Showing the artist as being eaten by the demon.
Like many other album posters the text of artists
logo/font as well as the album name has been
positioned at the top.
The colours all tone together brilliantly
and create a visually pleasing on the eye
poster.
Kid Cudi - Man on The Moon 2
Because the artist is lit up and shown
sitting in a very small confined space this creates an
isolated trapped feeling to the poster. Again
representing the artists on emotions.

4. 3 different colours have used, simplistic
yet easy on the eye.
The orange of the album cover stands out
because of the black background of
the poster.
Same font that Ed Sheeran uses on all
of his music and pieces of work.
Image of artist looking sternly at the audience,
shows a strong powerful side to the artist.
Most of the space of the poster has been filled
the main image of the album cover.
Information about the album including promoting
the fact is the number 1 album ‘in stores now’.
The poster also includes the artists website, this
helps link him to all types of audiences, anyone who
uses the internet.
Ed Sheeran paw print logo has been
added to the top right of the poster. This again ties
the poster in with his other work, where his paw print will be found
The actual album name ‘+’ is in a very
small sized text. This means the artists name
is mainly selling the album.
Ed Sheeran - +
The main image of the albums front cover is
directly in the centre of the poster, this clearly
states what the poster is promoting.

5. By analysing posters that can be found not only in magazines but also on billboards
and other types of media forms, this has helped me to gain the knowledge and
skills to now go on and create my own poster to promote a digipak/album
successfully and to a professional level.