Monday, 30 September 2013

Ideology, connotation and denotation

Ideology- Is a belief, every musical genre has an accompanying ideology for example rock, they are aggressive; literal in what they say and they are concerned about professionalism.  
They divide them into a dichotomy here is an example.

Pop                                       Rock

Clean                                    Dirty
Calmer, quieter                      Aggressive
Non-sexual                            Sexual
Euphemistic                           literal
No drugs                               Drugs
Happy                                  Angry, Unhappy
Professional  'good                 Appear to be less
at singing and playing             competent/ concerned 
                                           about professionalism
Apolitical                               Political 
Fake                                    Authentic
Money                                 Making a statement


The Ideology of the genre affects all aspects of its representation. Music magazines will reflect the ideology of their genres on visual style and language.

Semiotics is the study of signs. In media we use the terms signified and signifier, signified is the thing itself and signifier is the thing that we use to represent the thing itself.

In earlier stages we saw these as connotation and Denotation.

Connotation- is meanings we ascribe to the specific thing that we are talking about. How we will use this in our media work? If we look at a logo we can see the colour and the font. The colour red could suggest danger as we signify this with the colour, if the font is bold then we connote it to be very important. 

Denotation- is the thing itself, like the guitar on the front cover is just a guitar.











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