Magazine Poster Analysis !

Jack Bocock

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

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.

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.

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.