Presentation Media & Culture

By Peter Dukes

Things we will cover

• Genre • Visual Language • Collage and Montage • Harvard Referencing • Semiotics • Semiotics within images • Culture and meaning • Images and text• Cliché

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)

Visual Language Film Photography Paintings

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”

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.

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!!

5 things that resemble student living to me

Images and text

Cliché