Media Studies Lesson: 13/9/10


- Signifier's aren't only visual, they apply to sound as well. Semiotics is the study of signs. We look at three types of "signs".

• Symbolic - The learned codes. E.g numbers, letters and punctuation marks.
• Iconic - Resembling or imitating the signified. E.g photo or realistic sounds.
• Indexical - Where something is directly connected to the signified