Title: high noon
genre: western movie
The camera focuses on the men from multiple angles, ranging from close up shots to far away shots. There are also buildings and trees displayed in the background of these images.
Week 5 – Visual Social Semiotics – Caitlin O’Brien
Caitlin O’Brien
Date of post: 23/08/15
Topic and relevant lecture week: Visual Social Semiotics, Week 5
Visual Social Semiotics analyses the relationship between an image and its viewer. Whether that be people, places or things. It offers tools for formulating questions and ways of searching for meaning (Van Leeuwen, 2005) It gives us the ability, to identify a range of interpretations, meanings and potentials for an image.
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Week 5: Visual Social Semiotics
Clara Mendiola
Student number: n9184074
Date of post: 23/08/2015
A girl becomes embarrassed after giving flowers to US soldier
Location: Northern Iraqi city of Mosul
Date: 16th April 2007
Photographer: n/a
Source: http://kindnessblog.com/2014/08/27/the-knight-of-flowers/
Week Five – Visual Social Semiotics Analysis – Michaela Connors
Michaela Connors // n859 6603
Date of Post: 21/08/2015
Visual Social Semiotics Analysis
With visual social semiotics we can design effective communication, though different signs that stand for something other than itself. Kress and van Leeuwen (1996), have categorised this theory into three metafunctions: representational, interactive and compositional.
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Week Five – Visual Social Semiotics – Group Post
Visual Social Semiotics
With visual social semiotics we can design effective communication, though different signs that stand for something other than itself. Kress and van Leeuwen (1996), have categorised this theory into three metafunctions: representational, interactive and compositional .
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Week Three – Semiotics – Group Post
Semiology is the study of signs. Semiology, unlike compositional interpretation, is not heavily based on descriptive analysis and focuses more on the meaning behind the symbols present in an image or artwork. Semiology supplies us with analytical tools for taking an image apart and tracing how it works in relation to the larger meanings present in the image. This results in analytical precision when decomposing images and meanings.
Week 3: Semiotics ad images
Coca-Cola Light Lemon: “Lemon Peel” Print Ad
Advertiser: Coca-Cola Company
Agency: Publicis Amsterdam
Released: March 2010
Country: Netherlands
Art Director: Bart Oostindie
Copywriter: Jochem Visjager
Photographer: Simon Warmer
Source: http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/prints/coca-cola-light-lemon-lemon-peel-13612005/
Week Three – Semiotics Analysis – Michaela Connors
Michaela Connors // n859 6603
Date of Post: 16/08/2015
Semiotics Analysis
Semiology is the study of signs and directs the analysis and focus on the different meanings behind symbols within an image (Rose, 2001). This allows the viewer to deconstruct an image into building blocks, that allows us to understand how it works in relation to its greater meaning.
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CI Analysis – moving image sequence
Clara Mendiola
Student number: n9184074
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody
Release date: April 2014
Screen ratio: Switches from 1.85:1(intro) to 2.35:1 to 1.37:1(main body of film)
Image source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqrQBhw4YVg
men and women in a social relation-semiotics-lee carroll
Men and women in social relations
Title: Lauder for men
year: 1985
genre: Males/men
reference: www.vintageadbrowser.com/perfume-ads-1980s
Title : Reveal Calvin Klein
year: 2014
genre: Males and females
reference: Fahy, C, Naked Doutzen kroes reveals a hint of pert derriere as she cosies up to smouldering Charlie Hunnam in new Calvin Klein ad, 2014.
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