Representation with signs

So, my camera isn't working so I'm going to be doing a lot more typed blog posts to make sure that I'm up to date with my work output. 

In this blog I'm talking about the representation through semiotics. The idea of semiotics is to do with the meaning behind something within a scene and these meanings can trigger thoughts and links in the audiences mind which is very important when dealing with the genre of thriller. The way in which semiotics works is you have your signifier and the signified (which is the meaning) which then gives you your sign. Signs allow us to interpret the visual world. The sign itself is a polysemic which splits into three main parts. Firstly Iconic which is the resemblance the object has for example a product which has a brand. This is useful in setting a scene for example the director can input objects with a resemblance such as big ben or the statue of liberty to tell the audience where the scene is set. This will help me because it means I only have to require one shot of an object with resemblance to the place I want to set it instead of going to that place with may be unreachable for me. Another polysemic is symbolic which is when the audience recognise something within a subject because they have been tort what the subject is. An example of this is the Christianity cross which obviously means Christianity which we have been tort however a better example is the swatstika which means Nazis to most people because of Hitler stealing it and then using it as his symbol when in actual fact it's mean't to be a religious symbol within Buddhism denoting "auspiciousness". This is important within film making in general because by inserting certain symbolic signs the audience could be offended due to what they have been tort about the object. Finally indexical meaning which is when the audience can link certain events or ideas to an object, for example a gun or bomb can be linked with danger and death causing the audience to feel more tense while watching the film therefore helping the director achieving their goal when making a thriller.