Week 5. The rhetoric of the Image, semiotics

The Rhetoric of the Image - Semeiotics

Semiotics: 

Semiotics uses symbols and signs offering an interpretation of your own meanings. They help you depict your interpretation. Semiotics is a way of elaborating of the use of words mainly to boost up your vocabulary.
Signs and symbols help you progress onto word relationships.

Relationships : this is a way when you produce a word document as i am doing now, it helps you make those words a sentence, phrases can often come across in a certain manner, depending on how you phrase it. For example a phrase which might first produce 'the hairbrush brushed your hair' and changing the word around 'your hair brushed the hairbrush'.
Meanings and phrases can often mean new things or things that do not make sense at all.
Semiotics : one you have mastered that relationships between words, often words would be replaced by new word or meanings or sometime you add more word into it to add more definition to the meaning without changing it in the first place.
Context : this will occur when you have once wrote in an read it aloud, the way you write something can interpret the way the viewer fells like your feeling, it is your way of making them aware. For an example if i am feeling calm i might write in a nice, tidy way but if I'm angry i might write in capitals and untidy.

Icon, Index, Symbol 

Icon : an icon is something that looks like what its meant to be representing, for example and apple looks like an apple.
Index : This can either relate to an object or it could be a trace of something either a banana skin.
Symbol An object or and image that stands for something else rather than itself, an example a rose, it can be the sign of love, happiness.

this Image is by Tracey Emmin 'BED'

This image does look like what it is trying to represent, it is of someones bed. There can be a trace due to the surrounding of the bed, the rubbish. It is an index saying that they were there. It can stand for many purposes, either a representation of her as an artist, another women's habit. this photograph capture all of icon, index and symbol which also lead to the use of semiotics. 

Mimic by Jeff Wall

this image is an iconic image, representing different ways people treat each other. They do relate to an object, the person walking next to them. it is symbolic its stands out a showing of someone being looked at because they were different. It is safe to say that this image also consist of all three meanings.