Friday, November 12, 2021

Semiotics Preliminary Exercise 2

  Ferdinand de Saussure's Theory of Semiotics

Ferdinand de Saussure is French linguist who adjudged semiotics as a discipline and allude to it as Semiology. He theorized that a sign is made of two parts. He Signifier and the Signified. He mentioned that Semiotics allows audiences to see other codes in his theory sign is equivalent to signifier + signified.

 

Here is a brief summary of the clip video analyzed for the purpose of this particular exercise,

Today is the day the two participants of the tournament of hunger games that will represent district 12 will be chosen. All young adults are assembled and are waiting to see who will end up being the sacrificed ones this year. The sister of the main character Primrose Everdeen played by Willow Shield, Jennifer Lawrence who played the role of Katniss Everdeen was the first to be picked. But her immense love for her sister, she broke character and start yelling “I volunteer, I volunteer.” And she took her sister’s place. The host with fully bright costume was happy asked people to applaud she was literally the only one who was clapping. Then it was time to pick a male participant and Josh Hutcherson the antagonist performing the role of Peeta Mellark got chosen.



RESSOURCES: 

·         Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

·         Video, TV & Film Production Management Software | StudioBinder

·         MasterClass

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·          (filmlifestyle.com)


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