I’ve been doing this a lot in high school. Taking three portfolio subjects in year 12 have murdered me. First of all, studying visual arts required art historical studies in theory classes which made us prepare for the exam. Yes, our exam had a couple of picture of artworks where we had to write an essay on them. Then another “essay” of reflection on our practical piece. Secondly, I also took fashion; materials design subject where in my inspiration page has lots and lots of analysis on historical designs as well as influential designers. And finally media, which is all about film theories and ANALYSIS. Obviously, that’s not all. English! books, films, quotes,… just english. But I remembered one of the great things about english class is watching Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener and reading the alliteration, The Rabbits with your mate the night before the exam and I quite liked that movie.

Our week 7 lectorial explores text, which is a practice of sense-making. It is an empirical evidence of how others make sense of the world. Texts are sites where we can see social production and are vehicles for production of cultural meanings. Therefore include semiotic tradition of analysis in which refers to procedural systems of related conventions for correlating signifiers or signified in certain domains. Textual analysis requires relation of formal codes to social/ideological codes and our in class activity demonstrate the theory.

Formal codes:

Technical

Composition

Genre

Social/ideological codes:

Family

Gender

Sexuality

Race/ethnicity

Class age

Nationality