In my first Media lesson I learned that Roland Barthes said that; a sign is communicated in three different levels, these are;
Denotation: The objective description of what you see.
Connotation: What meaning a sign has for us as individuals and as a society.
Mythical
The choice of signs is called a Paradigm.
An Iconic code is usually distinguished by a picture and a symbolic code with words.
In this lesson, I analysed various different pictures and identified the denotations and connotations.
I found learning this quiet interesting because we had to differentiate the terms and use them to analyse objects and this allowed me to be more open minded and observant about the Connotation that can be given to society by just a simple picture.
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