Monday 10 November 2008

What I have learnt in Media Studies


In media studies I have learnt about denotation, connotation and Mise en scene, and why they are different. The denotation is everything that you are able to see in the picture meanwhile the Mise en scene goes into detail about what is in the image. It focuses on camera angles, lighting, props, costume and story of the image. Connotation is making a connection between objects and what they represent.
There is a woman dressed in purple; she has blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. Near the bottom the word “Tekken 6” is written in black and around it something is written in another language. It is most likely Japanese as “Tekken” means open hand in Japanese. There is also white writing in a smaller font which says “Namco Bandai games inc 2007games” “Namco Bandai” is written in capitals which could indicate it is important and could stand for the name of the game company.
As the white writing says games we can assume the background and image is computer generated. this is also shown by the fact that the background and lighting appear to be artifiial due to the shape it has formed and the postioning of the light onto the female body. It is a medium close up shot as we can only see the upper body of the woman. There is a light shining forward as we can see her arm displaying a line of light and between her two arms in the middle shaped like a circle the shade of purple is lighter. The woman is wearing purple clothing which might be the reason why the background colour is purple to emphasise that the image is about her and not the text written at the bottom because red is a bolder colour than purple. One of the possibilities of it written in red is it could be the signature colour for the game. It looks like she is wearing an outfit which could be a purple army suit because of the splotchy design around the body. From her clothing we could assume she is a fighter of some sort which may also be the reason why the text behind the “Tekken6” is written in red.

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