Week 4-5: Film and Meanings; Semiotics of Cinema

The objective of this chapter is to familiarize the students with the grammar of films and to enable them to read signs and codes of films and to make them able to how to play with semiotics and how to communicate through symbols as a Filmmaker. This refers to the way an audience receives texts by organizing all experiences into a binary patters: good/bad; master/slave; hero/villain; true/false. This helps in our understanding of what the filmic text means.

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