Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Summary
Image as an object of
study and social
analysis
Album covers
Information gathering
(Under
among
Quantitative Approach
analysis grid
Band's name
Record's name
CD, vinyl, cassete, digital
General characterization
Label
Release year
Musical subgenre
Band's geographical origin
Colour
(number of colours, dominant tones)
Lettering
(font used - handwriting, typewriting; different font sizes; upper / lower case letters)
Logos
(from the band, from de label)
Types of image
(photography; cartoon/comics/illustration; collage)
Image composition
(dominant element; disposition in cover; combining and/or overlapping elements)
Quantitative Approach
analysis grid
Brief description of the message
Definition up to 3 keywords to
Characterization of
album
cover's
message
Dominant element's disposition | 52,73% Dominant element occupies the entire cover
Typewriting
Illustration
Representation of members of the
punk scene, band members, situations
to encourage direct action and
rebellion against the system
Humorous and sarcastic illustrations
Legion of the Sadists |
The Return of Semen
and Blood, 2011
Simbiose |
Fake Dimenson, 2009
Crise Total + Periferia SA | Split
Album, 2014
Types of symbols
11,74% Associated with music/sound (musical instruments, microphones,...)
11,05% Animals
10,02% Associated with dead (skulls, skeletons,cemeteries,...)
Types of symbols
7,7% Associated with war/conflit (guns, bombs, sticks, daggers, warriors...)
6,91% Urban (buildings, streets,...)
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