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My intent is to create a video game case slightly based off of the Marvel film Black Widow.
The main photo in the middle will be of the main character which is named Widow. Widow will be a buff black male character who wears tactical clothing. In the background of the main image there will be the Hell Gate bridge that is located in New York which is the main city the game will take place in. There will be a 4 images outlined by a box showing what the game is like. The PEGI age rating will be displayed at the bottom right of each side of the game cover, which will be rated 16+. The background of the back cover will be a faint image of New York at night time. The game will be called Widow.
Key language
Semiotics
- Sign – an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else.
- Code – Symbolic tools used to create meaning
- Convention – Accepted ways of using media code
- Dominant Signifier – Any material thing that signifies
- Anchorage – Words with an image to provide context
Ferdinand de Saussure
- Signifier – a sign’s physical form (such as a sound, printed word, or image) as distinct from its meaning.
- Signified – the meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which it is expressed.
C S Pierce
- Icon – A sign that looks like its object
- Index – A sign or measure of something.
- Symbol – A sign that has a more random link to its object
Roland Barthes
- Signification – the representation or conveying of meaning
- Denotation – the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
- Connotation – an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
- Myth – a widely held but false belief or idea