Semiotics

Semiotics is about communication, its how we portray an image and understand the meaning of it, as humans we relate things things together, we can represent it unintentionaliy whether portraying something from its simplicity or its complextion we try to find a corresponding link.

We as humans portray links to everything we have learnt or experianced. we associate things with our memories, we deternine how closely connected an objext is to our image as we gather information to corrispond it with. in our lecture we learnt about how we recieve and understand what appears in front of us, when linking an object, what we see could be iconic, this is where what we see clearly represents what we imagine. We also see see simbolic things where it represents what we imagin however has no visual relevance to our perception such as a written word.

In our lecture we also lernt about denotation, this is where we undarstand what we see clearly for what it is for instance in a game we would see a gun on the floor there is no thinking to it, we understand what it is. we also learnt about connotation, this is where we suggest what we see and we associate it to what we think it is. for insance in a game when we see a gun its condition can help us understand its orgin and how it has been treated. finally we learnt about myths, this is where we assume information from its meaning for example in a game when we find a gun on the floor we assume who could have own'd it and even there intention.

We also learnt about paradigm. this is a veriaty of choices which we have to take. for instance, in the gears of war game you are compelled to make a desicion on where to go next, what actions to take. we learnt about syntagm, this is the option chosen from a selection of choices

in conclusion it was good :P