2. Identify ‘things’ in a western
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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:
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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
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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
