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Iconic signs: the sky looks like the sky, the sign post looks like a sign post, the clouds look like clouds
Indexical signs: social media logos are linked to the idea of new media, the pastel colours are linked to happiness, the font style is linked to being fancy
symbolic signs: the word ‘media’ has been decided as society to link, the green curvy box thing, and the facebook logo we have decided this is what we will recognise the app by.
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Iconic Signs – Abraham Lincoln, Stalin, Newspaper
Indexical Signs – The YouTube symbol relates to social media. Abraham Lincoln relates to being a US president, Joseph Stalin relates to coming from Russia
Symbol signs – A symbol sign would be the colour white, another symbolic sign would be the letter M, another symbol sign would be the fact that the dimensions of the post is similar to a rectangle.
iconic signs- tv, magazine, person
an indexical sign- newspaper links to reading, actors link to movies, Pac-man links to video games
a symbolic sign- colour purple links to fun and creativity
iconic signs – sign, magazine
indexical- magazine link to reading, clapperboard links to movie signs remind of a road.
symbolic – vogue, radio, blue
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Iconic sign:
The Instagram logo is not the actual Instagram logo, but it looks like it.
Indexical Sign:
The Apple logo is trying to look like an apple but it is only a silhouette.
Symbolic Sign:
The M in the Mcdonald’s logo has relevance to the letter we read as M.
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Examples of:
Iconic signs: Newspaper, bicycle, lighthouse
Indexical signs: Newspaper- indexical sign towards reading, the word media
Symbolic signs: 0, 3, M
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Iconic Sign
The iconic signs in my banner are the magazines as they are not the actual magazine covers but look exactly like the magazine cover.
Indexical Sign
an indexical sign in my banner is the word ‘ media’ as it is representing the subject media.
symbolic sign
a symbolic sign in my banner is all of the magazines collaged to look like bunting.
Semiotics
- Sign = something that represents something else
- Code = constructs meaning in media form
- Convention = the way of doing something
- Dominant Signifier = the most important thing that stands in for something else
- Anchorage = words that join an image to give meaning and context.
Ferdinand de Saussure:
- Signifier = something that stands in for something else
- Signified = something that is being evoked
C S Pierce:
- Icon = a sign that looks like an object
- Index = a sign that has a link to an object
- Symbol = a sign that has a random link to its object
Roland Barthes:
- Signification = process of constructing meanings from the sign
- Denotation = the literal meaning of something
- Connotation = meanings associated or interpreted with something
- Myth = a widely held but false belief or idea
- Ideology = the science of ideas
- radical = something unexpected
- reactionary = an expected idea
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an Iconic sign: a sign that looks like a object
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an indexical sign: a sign that has a link to its object
an symbolic sign: a sign that is arbitrary or random like to its object
blue background, yellow logos with a white ghost shape
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