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Monday, 28 November 2011

FINISH-Narrative and Semiotics

*Blue Velvet Introduction
Signs of opening sequence

- Red roses = perfection and beauty
-Slow romantic music - calm/peaceful
-White fence - American Dream - Ideology
-Hose pipe leaking - Foreshadows rest of the plot - negative

Nothing is contained in the town - not perfect - only appearance looks beautiful.

Photographers produced work in 80/90's on narrative


  • Philip-lorca Dicorcia = Street Photography - He would highlight individuals with light
  • Jeff Wall - set up photos designed to look realistic - similar perception to painter Di ego Velazquez (Book - The Order of Things) 
  • Gregory Crewdson 

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