Paul Roberts AS Foundation Portfolio

Friday 6 May 2011

Contents page analysis

This contents page is of a magazine called 'drummer' its quite creative and makes good use of pictures. Focussing on the magazine idea drumming. The green plus sign and use of puffs make it clearly understood which i took ideas to implement in my own magazine

Double page spread analysis

This double page spread is quite creative with the use of cut out newspaper effect for the title in varied capitals and lower case font. The picture is quite in your face with the leaning towards pose which creates the idea she is talking in your face. Also the hand on hips approach follows this. The main headings are clear and the information is collumned on the first page. The colours are quite bland but gives it a good effect. We notice that the font is red, just like her top which gives the page a sense of colour scheme

Double Page Spread Final

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Semiotics

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:

Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
Pragmatics: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication. However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the natural sciences – such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.