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Sunday Gamer – First Draft
Plan – Version 1 – Sunday Gamer
This is my new title/logo to the Sunday Gamer and it also has a head that I started drawing as a character will go there but I ran out of time to finish it.
My ideal consumer is a 15 year old boy that has no life and spends all day inside. He wears black jeans and a hoodie with trainers. He is about 5 foot 4 inches with long hair and acne. Came on a moped with headphones in and has an Android phone.
Analysising a Magazine Cover
Examples of Gaming Magazine Covers
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Definitions
- Barthes – one of the leading theorists of semiotics.
- Pierce – an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who came up with the three signs in media.
- Saussure – one of the founders of semiotics.
- Semiotics – the study of signs
- Sign – a gesture or action used to convey information or an instruction.
- Signifier – a sign’s physical form.
- Signified – the meaning or idea expressed by a sign.
- Icon -a sign that looks like its object.
- Index – a sign or measure of something.
- Symbol – a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.
- Code – a system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others.
- Dominant Signifier – the most important sign on a product.
- Anchorage – changing the meaning of an image to fit your viewpoint.
- Ideology – when multiple people have the same viewpoint.
- Paradigm – a group of signs
- Syntagm – a series of signs that if one drops out it doesn’t make sense.
- Signification – an exact meaning.
- Denotation – the literal meaning of something.
- Connotation – a feeling or meaning a word invokes.
- Myth – a widely held but not necessarily true belief or idea.
- Radical Text – a text that challenges the dominant ideology.
- Reactionary Text – a text that supports the dominant ideology.