Setting and iconography
Setting
is where the scene takes place. The setting is important because it creates
different connotations about the scene for example if the setting was in a cold
and lifeless forest the audience will expect that something bad is going to
happen there or if the setting was in a Springfield full of flowers then of
course the audience are going to think something good is going to happen there.
Iconography is objects that are significant in the scene for example in a scene
where someone gets stabbed to death the iconography would be the knife that was
used to stab the person or in a scene where someone is calling the police the
iconography would be the phone as it’s an important object.
Example
One
example of where setting was important was in the purge anarchy. This was in
the scene where the sergeant helps the victims. The setting was important here
because it was in an empty street and this shows the audience that they have no
hope of getting saved by anyone because no one is there. This makes the
audience feel pity for the characters in the show because no one is there to
save them.
One
example of iconography is in batman begins in the car chase scene. The
iconography in the scene is the bat mobile. This iconography was important because
he drives away from the police with it in the scene destroying a lot of stuff
on the way but the police do not realise he’s trying to do something good. This
makes the audience excited to see what is going to happen in the end when the
police find out he’s trying to do something good.
Conclusion
Overall All the information above has
helped me to develop a deeper understanding of how setting and iconography
could create different connotations and denotations towards the audience and
why they use different iconography and settings and what they try to show with
them. All this information is going to help me create my own thriller trailer.
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