The document analyzes and compares several images representing the band The Killers to understand their evolving iconography and style. The album covers show contrasting images that suggest an abstract musical style and themes that blend cheerful and gloomy topics. Fan art of the band is colorful but lacks consistency. Concert posters establish the band's logo and black-and-white schemes as recognizable traits, while their unconventional depiction in a boxing context reinforces their unpredictability as a group that supports each other.

1. By James Forbes

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.