This Mood Board is about the props that we would need for our trailer. These props are important because it would give the audience an idea what our film is about and what kind of genre it is.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Props Mood Board
This Mood Board is about the props that we would need for our trailer. These props are important because it would give the audience an idea what our film is about and what kind of genre it is.
Locations Mood Board
This Mood Board is about the locations that we have decided to look at that could be used in our trailer. It gives us an idea of where we would like to film our trailer.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Media Language
Semiotics - Barthes
Semiotics is the study of signs and their meanings.
Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Connotation - An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Blue can connote
Hitler can connote:
Eugenics - The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
For example; The Nazis preferred blonde haired and blue eyed people and so killed everyone except for the people who had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Barthes:
He argued that the audience look for signs to help them interpret narrative, those signs are based on their expectations the audience has due to their prior knowledge of old tales or myths.
His theory of how we interpret is:
Signifier/Signified: The meaning
Semiology: The relationship between the signifier and signified.
Sign: The total he signifier and signified e.g. how we interpret the combination of the signifier and the signified.
Signifer and signified (Connotes): the meaning behind this is...
Paragraph 1: Symbolic codes. (Mis en Scene)
Paragraph 2: Technical codes. (Camera and editing)
Paragraph 3: Written codes and Audio codes. (Text and Sound)
Paragraph 4: Reception Theory - Stuart Hall
Semiotics is the study of signs and their meanings.
Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Connotation - An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Blue can connote
- Emotionless
- Masculine
- Cold
Hitler can connote:
- Evil
- Fascism
- Holocaust
- Power
- Propaganda
- Death
- Racism
Eugenics - The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
For example; The Nazis preferred blonde haired and blue eyed people and so killed everyone except for the people who had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Barthes:
He argued that the audience look for signs to help them interpret narrative, those signs are based on their expectations the audience has due to their prior knowledge of old tales or myths.
His theory of how we interpret is:
Signifier/Signified: The meaning
Semiology: The relationship between the signifier and signified.
Sign: The total he signifier and signified e.g. how we interpret the combination of the signifier and the signified.
Signifer and signified (Connotes): the meaning behind this is...
Paragraph 1: Symbolic codes. (Mis en Scene)
Paragraph 2: Technical codes. (Camera and editing)
Paragraph 3: Written codes and Audio codes. (Text and Sound)
Paragraph 4: Reception Theory - Stuart Hall
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