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This document discusses signs, semiotics, and how filmmakers use codes and conventions to create meaning. It explains that a syntogram is a series of signs put together in a specific order, like words in a sentence or shots in a film. Denotation is the dictionary definition of a sign, while connotation involves cultural implications. Signs rely on social agreement about what they represent. The triangle of dependency illustrates how the audience, director, and text influence each other to create effective meaning. The document prompts writing the notes in your own words, explaining why genres have conventions, listing action film conventions, and describing how a film idea fits those conventions.
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6.1) Find the margin of error for the given values of​Ìýc, s, and n.
c=0.8080​, s=55​, n=21.
6.2) Find the margin of error for the given values of​Ìýc, s, and n.
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c=0.99, x =13.7 ​, s=2.0​, n=99
The 99​% confidence interval using a​Ìýt-distribution is left parenthesis nothing comma nothing right parenthesis.
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A) Find the sample mean.
B) Find the standard deviation.
C) A 90% confidence interval for the population mean is ( , ).
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· Review the grading rubric for this discussion.
· Select a full-length film from the AFI 10 Top 10 list.
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Please view the video Adding Pictures and Video to Discussions and Introductions for guidance on how to integrate multimedia with your response.
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Please view the video Accessing Feedback in the Gradebook for guidance on how to review your instructor’s feedback when the post is graded.
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- 1. Signs and SemioticsSigns and Semiotics Understanding how film makers use signs that we understand to mean certain things.
- 2. ‘One of the keys to understanding the meaning in text is the use of codes. Codes are rules or conventions by which signs are put together to create meaning.’ For example, the rule is that we read from left to right…therefore, you can make sense of the signs (the words) in this sentence by reading the letters to the left first.
- 3. Quiz… write down what each of these signs mean.
- 4. Syntogram ‘ A series of signs put together in a specific order to create meaning. The sentence you are reading is a syntogram.’ As are the films you watch, but they are a bit more complicated.
- 5. Codes, conventions, denotation and connotation. Denotation = dictionary definition. e.g. cat = small furry animal which makes a ‘meow’ sound. Connotation = What things imply or what you understand from them. e.g. light = good, dark = evil.
- 6. Saussure… Sign = Signifier + Signified Knowing that the word ‘tree’ means a tree ‘Tree’ Draw your own tree
- 7. But… hold up your tree We all have slightly different ideas of what tree will look like because our experiences of trees are all slightly different. Signs rely upon an agreement about what they stand for. Codes e.g. dress codes, rely upon the same. Conventions are the codes that we expect as part of a particular text. Action films have certain conventions.
- 8. Triangle of Dependency Audience Director Text The audience need the director to create the text, the director needs the audience to understand the text, the text needs to be understood by both parties to be effective. In this model, the audience have enough power to be able to create their own meaning from a text.
- 9. Today, on paper you can hand in… 1. Write these notes in your own words. 2. Explain in a paragraph why it is important that films of a certain genre follow the conventions (rules) of the genre. 3. Write a list of the conventions you expect to find in an action film. 4. Write down how your ideas for your film will fit in with the conventions. (This will take a couple of paragraphs)
- 10. Today, on paper you can hand in… 1. Write these notes in your own words. 2. Explain in a paragraph why it is important that films of a certain genre follow the conventions (rules) of the genre. 3. Write a list of the conventions you expect to find in an action film. 4. Write down how your ideas for your film will fit in with the conventions. (This will take a couple of paragraphs)