Preliminary Exercise 2 : Barthe's theory of semiotics

                            Barthe's Theory of Semiotics
In this post we talk about Roland Barthe, he was a French philosopher and theorist. He studied the relationship between denotation and connotation. He theorized that a text has multiple meanings, and signs are denotative and connotative. In this PowerPoint that me and partner (Marie) worked on, I put the first slide that started our intro to the part on Barthe's theory. The slide also defines denotation, connotation, and myth listing what they mean. His theory relates to film because every sign is either denotative or connotative. The ideas, beliefs, culture, and interest of a character or society also revolves around what he believed. In the table below it shows us analyzing a clip from the mocking jay. We talked about the location the clip took place, the acting and costumes, and the denotative and connotative meaning behind each. Like for the acting the denotative meaning was "the audience is surprised and upset" and the connotative meaning was "The crowd was surprised by the news, which lit their faces". The technology used the create this my laptop/phone, I'd consider myself an expert. This is a PowerPoint presentation and the meaning behind creating it was to introduce Barthe's theory and how it relates to film. This practically sums up everything I learned.