Last week I got my first as level media essay back. The essay was about binary oppositions in Titanic and I was given a grade B-. I was thrilled with this because it was our first essay this year. My targets for my next essay are; to not generalise and therefore centralise my analysis, and to revise the difference between iconic and symbolic signs. So I decided to go back and revise some of the semiotics we learnt at the beginning of the year to.
Iconic Sign: When the signifier resembles the signified e.g. a picture.
Symbolic Sign: Where the relation between the signifier and the signified is culturally specific e.g. most words.
Indexical Sign: A sign where there is a causal link between the signifier and the signified, e.g. smoke signifies fire.
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