Monday, 26 November 2012

Media terms


Visual Codes - what you see in the scene, what makes up the mise-en-scene 

Narrative Codes - how the story is constructed

Semiotics - the theory of signs

Sign - actual object 

Signifier - physical attributes of the sign

Signified - meaning constructed from the physical attributes of the object 

Iconic Sign - what the actual object is

Indexical Sign - a sign that suggests something has happened

Symbolic Sign - iconic sign given a symbolic meaning

Syntagmatic Structure - how the narrative is constructed through signs 

Semiotics - The science of signs 

To understand more on semiotics this video helped me...





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