COMN 2700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intertextuality, Semiotics, Qus
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Textual analysis: how texts produce meaning through codes. Formal analysis: film is like a language- villarejo. Cinematography: the way mes is captured by camera. Types of shots: ex. l shot (can"t see human), l. shot (human+scene), medium (knee/waist up), close up, e close up. Camera movement: panning (sides), tilting (up/down), and tracking. 180 degree rule: facing each other means talking. Story: in order of events; plot: way in which recounted. Representation: not the thing itself, but something that stands in. Sanders-pierce: something that stands for something, to someone in some capacity . Semiotics: dvlpd by de saussure and sanders independently. Saussure: signifier (material, which represents), signified (conceptual, what is represented). Barthes: denotative (direct, literal) vs connotative (wider meaning). Saussure: meaning not product of equivalence of signifier and signified. Language made of finite sounds- phonemes (44 in english). Propp: typology in folk stories (hero, villain) repeated as code across texts (intertextuality). Book on ideology: relationship with reality, define experience, common sense, natural/obvious.
