Semiotics Preliminary Exercise 2

 Roland Barthes' Theory of Semiotics                                                                                            10/25/2022

        Introduced on November 11th 2013, the seuqel movie: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire- became one of the most iconic films in history. The Hunger Games features brutal events where a nation of power chooses low income individuals, one male and  female by force between the ages of 11-18 from each of the city's twelve districts, which is broadcast live throughout the country for the entertainment. More-so forward In the clip I was tasked for my exercise, Katniss (a girl who offered herself to the nation in stakes of her sisters life) twirls in her dress in front of an audience after winning the game. The dress catches fire and burns away, leaving Katniss in an outfit made of feathers. She realizes she's dressed as a mockingjay. This is where watchers analyzing this film uses connotative and denotive thinking to evaluate what is happening inside a scene! For this semiotic preliminary exercise, I continued Roland Barthes' theory, and was able to identify the direct and rhetoric meaning of the things happening in this scene. First, me and my partner created a table, which we followed up by sketching the signs we wanted to focus on: the dress itself, the audience, and the economical status of people in the film. I was able to learn during this task how to take a further deep into the connotative meaning of an event, and how it can have deeper meaning, which was very fun to experience!