Normally I won’t post my school projects on my blog, but recently I’ve felt I’ve done some really interesting work, and it’s beyond the spectrum of “just a paper.” I’m really proud of my work, though it’s not masterful work, it definitely is making me happy to see how it turns out.
Anyway, I struggled quite a bit on this project, but I really turned it around. We needed to select a certain type of media (an image, advertisement, poster, film, music, whatever) and analyze the “semiotics” of it. It’s a difficult theory to explain in a thumbnail, but it essentially states that everything has a signifier, a signified concept, and tosses in concepts ideologies, symbols, icons, connation, denotation, syntagm, and many other ideas to spice things up a little.
What I ended up analyzing were three movie posters for Dark Knight. I used a lot of imagery and media to go along with this analysis, and in the end it looks really awesome.
First, I really enjoyed your project.
Also, it was so helpful to me since I have a simliar assignment to do and I don’t know how to start it. (yet, my project is much smaller than yours – one or two sheets of A4- it was really helpful, indeed) So, I can say that you thaught me. You gave me some ideas how I start the project. Thank you for your help – whether you intende or not.
p.s. Excuse my English -if there is any mistake-. ’cause I’m not a native English speaker…haha..:D
This project is actually really interesting, similar to what I did last year in year 12 English Studies but this is much more in depth and I didn’t get to pick what I did it on.
I think you captured all the symbolism and portrayal of imagery of the 3 pictures perfectly. It’s good the way you mention how much Batman and The Joker personalities clash and contrast.
I hope you got a really high mark for this since you did an excellent job and it covers one of my all time favorite movies!
Do you have any references for this work?
im finishing my my own essay on semiotics of media posters and finding it difficult to find references to prove what ive said about the posters.