semiotics is the study of meaning, and within this are different areas we covred in the leture. I found most of them interesting but took a while to understand. Semoitoics is put into 5 main catagories. These are to do with what we interperate and how we study images.
Iconic or arbitray?
When an image is close to the real thing it is known as "Iconic" and when its more close fantasy its arbitray. For evample the image on the left is arbitray as its nothing like a real human, whereas the one on the right is a photograph of avril lavigne so is the iconic of the two.
Sometime however some images may look very much like the real thing and can be noticed as Iconic. This all depends really on what you interperate it is. I personally found the slide of warewolfs and real life dolls hard to decide. If you can tell its a person in a suit then it would be more iconic than a 3d model of a warewolf as warewolfs dont existin reality and Iconic focsus on reality.
denotation- What the sign is (literally)- what it looks like
connotation- What is suggests, meaning of the image.
myth- what the world believes, and interperates.
Denotation- Skinny young male, large eyes, greyscale with hint of purple. Messy hair pale skin,scared. Smart clothing however ripped.
connotation- unwell maybe? unhappy, unloved and unwanted. Could be frightened easily. Ripped jacket suggests he isnt looked after well.
myth- fragile young male, who keeps to himself and has upperclass family but look down on him.
Sometimes the connotation and myth could be very similar. Connotation in a way is just describing behind the image and the myth is how everyone would see if they didnt know of its background. The difference between the two can be very confusing to me. The myth is how everyone will previeve it where as connotation is looking more more closely.
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