Hello welcome to my blog. I am currently studying AS media and we are studying Slasher Films .My blog contains records of background ,planning and research leading up to the production of our final slasher film Red Christmas which will be a take on Black X mas Slasher. Thanks ! :)

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Semiotics key terms

Denotation

is taking it apart piece by piece to come o an understanding of how it was made and designed.

Connotation

when we interpret a signifier

Signifier

what we think it means a detail we think as symbolic significance

Binary Opposition

key device for creating conflict in a drama

Polysemy

multiple or possible meanings such as a red rose this could be interpreted as guilt or love

Anchorage

when meaning of a signifier should be made clear

Communication Test

always consider what you do not see the choices the producers have rejected


Stuart Halls 3 Levels of Reading

Preferred Reading

how it is hoped audience will respond to text 

Negotiated Reading

largely understand preferred reading but through lack of knowledge or done entirely follow preferred reading

Oppositional Reading

because of lack of knowledge or block out what you do not follow within the texts

Narrative Enigma

mysterious elements within a text form enigma needed in any drama

Intertextuality

meaning of one is tied to another e.g. earlier text.

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