Horror films use established signs and codes in their conventions to signify deeper meaning, in my A2 horror trailer we used red colors in less obvious places for example on the nails, this connotes danger and blood as red is a warning color. Theorist Roland Barthes talks about semiotic, which is the study of signs, or the social production of meaning by sign systems, of how things come to have significance by meaning. He mentions two identifies orders of signification. This is denotation and connotation, one talks about the actual object and the other talks about the hidden meaning behind the object. In my summer trailer we used the typical teen characters such as the slut, the jock, the nerd and the final girl, we decided to use these particular characters to represent teen punishment as a sub-genre , this was purposely used as red is a danger color. One common denotation in horror movies is dark settings, this is used because it connotes fear and danger as many peoples fear is the...
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