Assignment 9 iconography collage

1. Assignment 9: Collage of _________ Iconography Set: Tues Jan 28 Due: today!

2. Identify ‘things’ in a western Dusty lonely roads Saloons Cowboys = hats, chaps, spurs, Masculine men Horses & saddles Jails Sherrifs Guns ‘shoot off’ between baddie and goodie – long/mid/close up…..sharing at eachother …..tension!....dust bunny….

3. Iconography means… What do you think? Iconography is used in film to describe the visual language in films, focused on genre. It’s a simple form to analyse (deconstruct / break down) the aspects of genre before we even know what things mean. It’s the symbolic meaning we attach to images, the connotation We expect to see certain objects on screen with certain genres, they are similar to conventions and are like ‘genre indicators’

4. Ingredients in your collage: Setting & staging Plot/narrative (and/or themes and content) Key scenes – what happens? Character types Character MES (costume/props/make up/body language/facial expression) Celebrity/actors associated with genre? Distinctive camera shots/angles/movement Optional: music/sounds (no visuals – just words) Can have stills from films in your genre, but doesn’t have to be JUST that.

5. Steps 1. Who is doing what? 2. find and save images ( jpgs ) 3. make into 1 full collage (electronic) 4. save this collage as a JPEG 5. in word, type bullet points which summarize your findings (could be a chart of each ‘ingredient description) 6. Blog title: College of ________ iconography Picture: attach collage (jpeg) Text: copy and paste the bullet points from word

6. Examples….. Btw – not all ‘good’!

7. http://megi-asmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/iconography-collage.html