Thursday 12 September 2019

Semiotics film poster

Image result for silence of the lambs poster

From this poster I can denote the white girl in at the center of the poster. The colour white as well as the young girl give the connotations of purity and innocence, which represents the girl. Another denotation is that the girl has red eyes. This has connotations of blood and anger and also lust. 

Another denotation from this poster is the moth covering the girls mouth. The moth gives connotations of freedom as the moth could fly away. However, it could also give the exact opposite connotation of the girl being stuck and controlled by someone else, as a moth could be trapped in a glass by someone more powerful just as the girl is being controlled by someone more powerful. Also from the moth I can denote a skull sign on its back. This has connotations of death and danger, which like the moth is surrounding her. Another denotation from the moth is that it is a dirty yellow colour. The dirty yellow has connotations of caution, showing that the character will need to be careful due to the danger engulfing her. The dirty yellow can also have connotations of decay and sickness, this also significant as it could represent that what the character is going to go through will be sickening and almost decay at her personality.  

Another denotation is the colours in the poster (the white to the left the darkness to the right). The connotations if white is the purity and innocence of the main character and how that she is good a person. The connotations of the  darkness to the right represents death, danger, fear and bad things that are going to happen. The darkness is engulfing the main character which shows that the darkness is surrounding her and bad things will happen to her.

    Another denotation is the close up the shot of Clarice. The connotation

1 comment:

  1. Don't forget denotation of black and white close up shot and the orange colour stands out

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