Meaning of visual signs (Preliminary Exercise)

 

On 11/3/21 We watched a trailer for the Hunger Games. During the trailer, we had to analyze three visual signs and their denotative and connotative meanings. For the three signs, I choose Katniss's wedding dress, the stage they were on, the audience they were on, and their audience.

I found the usage of visual signs to be an important part of this movie. Visual signs contribute also contribute a lot of meaning to the audio within short shots/clips. My team and I plan on using several visual signs within our film opening a why show the depth of our knowledge of filmmaking. The Hunger Games provided a lot of inspiration since we plan to do the action genre, the usage of simple visuals like the dress to portray meaning. The only limit is that we might not have enough time to build up to the meaning of the visual signs like in the Hunger Games



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