Censorship and Truth

Completed Essay - Album Covers

Open publication - Free publishing - More album covers

Essay Draft 1

Open publication - Free publishing - More albums

Jean Baudrillard and Postmodernism

Identity

Task 3 - Essay Proposal

Concept:

Title   -   Does the 'form, format and function' of an Album Cover effect how it communicates to the audience


In my essay i want to discuss how the way in which a album cover is put together can effect the way in which it can communicate with the audience. I will use Denotation and Connotation techniques to aid my findings, there will also be the critical analysis of four album covers to then see how they have used similar techniques in the creation of there LP covers to advertise there work. 

Sources:

'Sleeves of Desire'   -   ECM   -    Lars Muller Publishing 


'Nothing you can see that isn't shown'   -   Ian Inglis   -   Cambridge University Press


'Album Covers, Stories behind the sleeves'   -   Storm Thorgerson & Aubery Powell   -   Dorling Kindersley Book


'Album, Style and image in sleeve design'   -   Nick de Ville   -   Octopus Publishing

The Music Library    -   Graphic Art and Sound   -   FUEL Publishing 


Album Cover Album   -   Dominy Hamilton   -   ILEX


Taken By Storm   -   Storm Thorgerson   -   Omnibus Press


The Basic of Semitics   -   Daniel Chandler   -   Routledge