Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. In film not only words are used, but through camera angles, mise en scene and lighting. In my foundation film project The Briefcase semiotics have been used to show what kind of place the film is set and to give the audience a better understanding of what the characters are like.
Lighting as played a major part in my film, for example in the opening it is shot in black and white to give a noire style and to show how dull and melancholy the protagonist feels, but when the protagonist Simms has escaped from a gangster, it turns into colour to show that life might be getting better for the protagonist. The use of black and white connotes that the beginning is in the past.
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