Audiences summary
- Created by: sophie97x
- Created on: 09-12-14 21:53
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- Forms
- Mise-en-scene
- Setting
- Including scenery, props, furniture and other set dressings
- Costume and Makeup
- Lighting
- Intensity, source, colour and direction
- Figure, expression and movement
- Setting
- Semiotics
- Roland Barthes in 1960 (decade of discovery and development of Television)
- Communication Process
- Sender (institution who constructs the idea)
- Encodes (Medium e.g. film encodes what is sent by institution)
- Message (the perception they want you to have and understand)
- Receiver (Audience)
- Decodes (Your interpretation may be interpreted differently to what the sender wanted)
- Receiver (Audience)
- Message (the perception they want you to have and understand)
- Encodes (Medium e.g. film encodes what is sent by institution)
- Signifier and SIgnified
- Signifier - the physical object
- Signified - the mental concept or the meaning that the signifiers convey
- Signifier + signified = sign
- Sender (institution who constructs the idea)
- Communication Process
- Types of SIgns
- Iconic sign - looks like what it represents
- Indexical sign - points to what it represents
- Symbolic sign - chosen at random to represent something of association
- Roland Barthes in 1960 (decade of discovery and development of Television)
- Theories
- Todorov's equilibrium theory
- 5 stages of narrative. 1. state of equilibrium, 2. disruption to that order by an event, 3. a recognition that the disorder has occurred, 4. an attempt to repair damage, 5. a return/restoration of NEW equilibrium
- Propp's Spheres of Action
- Argued fairy tales were constructed of certain plot elements (which he called functions) and these elements occurred in uniform sequence.
- villain, hero, donor, helper, princess, her father, dispatcher, false hero
- Argued fairy tales were constructed of certain plot elements (which he called functions) and these elements occurred in uniform sequence.
- Levi-strauss' Binary Oppositions
- Introduced notion of binary opposition as a useful way to consider the production of meanings within narratives
- He argued all construction of meaning was dependent, to some degree, on oppositions (e.g. east vs west, good vs evil, love vs hate, truth vs deception)
- Todorov's equilibrium theory
- Mise-en-scene
- Sender (institution who constructs the idea)
- Encodes (Medium e.g. film encodes what is sent by institution)
- Message (the perception they want you to have and understand)
- Receiver (Audience)
- Decodes (Your interpretation may be interpreted differently to what the sender wanted)
- Receiver (Audience)
- Message (the perception they want you to have and understand)
- Encodes (Medium e.g. film encodes what is sent by institution)
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