By James Forbes

The album cover on the right denotes a simple image of the forest with bright colours, this may connote a peaceful and vibrant style of music, singing about conventional cheerful matters like love, however the severed arm in the centre is quite disturbing and makes the image look unusual, connoting the album will be more interesting because it’s less conventional with an abstract style that develops and associates the artist ideas of cheerful matters with gloomy ones, for example death.

The album cover on the left denotes a black and white image of a goat, and a half naked woman standing in front of what looks like a old caravan. The unrelated features in the image makes it look very strange and connotes the band is unpredictable and that the album will also have an abstract style.

Looking at both album covers it’s hard to find any similarities, aside from the killers logo in the middle. The fact the images of the albums are different may connotes the band is trying to reinvent themselves until they find an image they like. This means there iconography may still be changing and makes it important for them to have there logo in the centre otherwise the audience wont be able to instantly recognize this as the album cover of one of there favoured bands. This could also connote that the style of music in one album whether it narrative or performance based and the type of matters they sing about will be very different in the other album.

The images above is of a banner for a fan site dedicated to the killers. The site has blogging for activates relating to the band.

Since this is a fan made website the fans interpretation of the bands iconography may be false and different to the one the band is actually trying to get across.

The image is very colourful and vibrant, this connotes the band is very exciting and lively. There are still no distinctive similarities between the images making it hard to find an iconography for the band. However the fact there is no similarities might also connote the band is unpredictable, and this might be an aspect that will allow the audience to recognize the band in different media.

The image to the right denotes a poster or advert for the killers who will be performing live at Hard Rock Calling concert.

Again the image is in black and white, making it one of the only aspects that will allow the audience to recognize the killers. As well as the colour scheme the logo is another piece of iconography. The killers logo is coloured in yellow and has larger font size, making it stand out better to attract the audience’s attention. It’s also placed above the kooks logo, this shows that the band is more important than the kooks.

The image to the left denotes a poster of the band at a boxing match. At last there is a similarity in that the image is in black and white like the album cover in the 2nd slide; the colour makes it seem like one of those very old images from the 70’s. Looking at how different all the images are it’s not surprising to see this poster however it does enforce the idea the band is unpredictable as the poster isn't of the usual boy band poses. In the poster it looks like there tending to the boxers injuries, as well as looking quite comical this does connote the bands willingness to look out for the team, and no one person is more famous or important than the other.