Music Poster Analysis #2This poster is a promotion for a Mumford & Sons concert in Tennessee at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2009

The poster has an old fashioned/folky style towards it with the fancy borders; this is a semantic code to suggest it will be a folky gig with folk-like music. It fits with the bands ethos as they use folky instruments as well which are all shown in the poster as the central image and by making it the poster completely central, it makes the poster aesthetically pleasing. It appears to be a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln which is very iconic as it shows patriotism, his silhouette has the bands instruments inside him. They have used Abraham Lincoln as the gig is occurring at the same town as Abraham Lincoln’s museum, this also connotes that they are trying to recreate music in that time zone but the whole use of Abraham Lincoln in this poster is a use of the Hermeneutic/Enigma Code as it is not explained why he is on this poster. The poster is symmetrical giving a simplistic feel to it and it brings focus to the central image. The central image is separated from the band name, date and location.

The colours used are white and turquoise, using only two colours makes it very simple which contrasts with the complexity of what the actual poster is. The colours contrast as well which allows the audience to clearly depict the images