2. Things we will cover
• Genre
• Visual Language
• Collage and Montage
• Harvard Referencing
• Semiotics
• Semiotics within images
• Culture and meaning
• Images and text
• Cliché
3. Genre
Inglourious Basterds was
released in 2009 and
directed by Quentin
Tarantino and Eli Roth.
There are lots of genres to
this film but the most
apparent ones are Black
comedy, Action/Adventure
and Thriller.
The original Willy wonka
was released in 1971 and
was directed by mel Stuart
the main genres of this
film are Musical drama,
Musical Comedy and
Family/childrens film.
The release date for Lock
Stock was 1998 and directed
by Guy Richie. The genres of
this film are, Thriller, Crime
Comedy and Crime fiction
the original Star Wars
was released in 1977 and
directed by George
Lucas. The genres of
these films are
Adventure film, Action
Film and Scifi (Science
Fiction)
5. Collage & Montage
On this task we had five options in which we had to
design a collage with images that were either not
copyright or our own, I chose to do my own. The
option I went for was “dream time”
6. Harvard Referencing
In this lecture we refreshed what we
need to do in regards to referencing.
So we looked at.
CITING:- which is when we refer to
someone's idea or theory, for
example. Dave water etal says
drinking water is funky fresh.
LIST OF REFERNCES OR
BIBLIOGRAPHY:- we include this at
the back of our work where we
reference in full.
7. Semiotics, how did it start?
This is just a quick run over of the theory of semiotics before we
start looking at semiotics within images. Semiotics is simply
meaning. It looks at how we attach meaning to images, sound
etc. Ferdinand De Saussure is the inventor of semiotics (1857-
1913) he said language either written or visual are a system of
signs in which have two parts. Part 1 SIGNIFIER and part 2
SIGNIFIED. Signifier is the first thing we see which is anything
and everything. Signified is the meaning of that object we saw.
Then Roland Barthes (1915-1980) comes onto the scene and
spices it up with a bit of culture thrown in. instead of signifier
and signified he has changed it to CONNOTATION and
DENOTATION. It’s the same theory but gets more complex when
we bring our own cultural knowledge to the process. For
example my one would be, not walking on 3 grids as they are
bad luck but 2 is fine.
BAD LUCK!!
