Semiotics

Tharun thind film

1) In the beginning of the film the teenagers are meant to be viewed as disrespectful and ignorant(stereotypical teenagers) 

2) Certain signs were used in the film like the banana looking like a gun to make the audience think bad of the character. However the audience realise that they are wrong at the end.

Media Magazine: Semiotics 

1) Ferdinand suggests that the signifier and the signified are the two parts that make up a sign.

          2)  Polysemy means to have more than one meaning.

          3) When Barthes says signs can become naturalised he means the process of signs being established in society. 

          4) Barthe's 5 narrative codes are: enigma codes

                                                                action codes

                                                                semantic codes 

                                                                symbolic codes

                                                                referential codes

           5) The writer suggests Russian doll uses narrative codes in the title because russian dolls get smaller and smaller. This is a link to the series.

     Icons, indexes ands symbols

Icon:

Index:

Symbol:

2) Icons and indexes are important in media because there is more than one meaning to them. People can interpret them in different ways.

3) Companies may avoid using symbols because people can interpret in the wrong way. People could take offence to it so companies must be careful.

4) Kendal Jenner was in an advert for Pepsi which was very controversial as it seems to be a protest for black people and she seemed to save the day by giving the police a can of Pepsi. It received so much backlash.