The signifiers in this visual is the title 'GOTCHA', 'Our lads' in the sub-heading and the photos. 'GOTCHA' denotes the term 'got you' and connotes recognition as a friendly term and is insinuating that the writer / story and the reader are similar and unformal. 'Our lads' in the sub-heading denotes lads that belong to us, and connotes 'our mates', bring it to a personal level even though technicly it is very unlikely that all the soldiers are our friends. The pictures denote two boats, one that has been sunk and the other that has been hit. They connote that the soldiers at war are successfully attacking the enemy.
The syntagmatic structure of the visual is important to the viewers opinions. By using friendly terminology that catches the readers eye initially and then again in the sub-heading, by the time you get to the pictures you are feeling possitive at the events shown because it is writen in a personal way rather than telling the story in a way that disconnects from the reader.
No comments:
Post a Comment