This Research Paper will cover a full semiotic analysis of the Jeffrey Wall photograph
called "A Sudden Gust Of Wind".
In the landscape photograph, you'll see that there are two casual dressed men and two people that seem to be one female and a male that look like they aren't farmers but maybe wealthy businessmen? The four men in the photograph are disorientated and in a slight panic. This is all caused by a "Sudden Gust Of Wind".
All kinds of paper are swirling and flying away while the people in the photograph can do nothing but spectate. The landscape consists of what seems to be a small farming communities river and gravel bridge. The tree bending in the way we presume the wind is blowing suggests that this isn't your average little
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2009. Chapter Two: Communication and Media Semiotics). Semiotics is both a science, with its own corpus of findings and its theories and a technique for studying anything that shows or make a sign visable to the eye. To sum it up shortly, if you had to see a drawn picture of a tree you're automatically going to think of a real-life tree. Semiotics allows us to describe any system of signs: texts, images, performances, multimedia productions, traffic signals, fashion, daily life, etc. Pieter J Fourie said "In semiotics it is argued that we, including the media, communicate with signs. Signs are combined according to the rules of codes. With the use of signs and codes, we convey meaning. Semiotics is thus the science of signs and codes and the meaning they convey." (Fourie, PJ. 2009. Chapter Two: Communication and Media Semiotics) Semiotics can be divided …show more content…
One-point perspective states that an object or scenery will be large in the foreground and will eventually become smaller and narrower as the moves toward the background. I notice three points in the photograph where one-point perspective is noticeable. 1.The telephone lines going down the river disappearing into the distance. 2. The river Itself goes on and becomes less and less noticeable and creates depth and space finally disappearing into a vanishing point. 3. The mass amounts of poles dug into the farmlands on the left-hand side gives it a pattern caused by distance, the poles eventually
2009. Chapter Two: Communication and Media Semiotics). Semiotics is both a science, with its own corpus of findings and its theories and a technique for studying anything that shows or make a sign visable to the eye. To sum it up shortly, if you had to see a drawn picture of a tree you're automatically going to think of a real-life tree. Semiotics allows us to describe any system of signs: texts, images, performances, multimedia productions, traffic signals, fashion, daily life, etc. Pieter J Fourie said "In semiotics it is argued that we, including the media, communicate with signs. Signs are combined according to the rules of codes. With the use of signs and codes, we convey meaning. Semiotics is thus the science of signs and codes and the meaning they convey." (Fourie, PJ. 2009. Chapter Two: Communication and Media Semiotics) Semiotics can be divided …show more content…
One-point perspective states that an object or scenery will be large in the foreground and will eventually become smaller and narrower as the moves toward the background. I notice three points in the photograph where one-point perspective is noticeable. 1.The telephone lines going down the river disappearing into the distance. 2. The river Itself goes on and becomes less and less noticeable and creates depth and space finally disappearing into a vanishing point. 3. The mass amounts of poles dug into the farmlands on the left-hand side gives it a pattern caused by distance, the poles eventually