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This is literally the best education channel I’ve ever seen how do you not have more subs and views? My teacher is great but I’ve got so much more out of this video on Barthes’ theory than I’ve been taught, and I got a grade 8 last mock! Also what I would recommend you do for next year is maybe do videos on some of the closed study products for various exam boards because i think that would really help next year’s lot as well as the theories. Anyways, keep up the great work!

I find this so fascinating. This is how my mind works naturally. But kind of backwards. I never knew what semiotics was. This is kind of a little story to those who might find it interesting: There is autistic veins in my family, and many of us have synesthesia, with many other conditions. You could lock me in a room with a pile of dirt and I’d find a way to entertain myself. I just love detail. No surprise - I became a graphic designer. Since Covid hit, I haven’t been able to switch off my brain - not from stress but from excitement. It’s like I ‘woke.’ I’m realising I actually thrive in this environment, and I’m taking off like a rocket now. I have so many ideas and inventions I’ve created in the last 6 months. If you ever skated and remember Rodney Mullen - he was diagnosed late in life as a high functioning autistic, and he is now lecturing and teaching people to think differently. Imagine a world where these things were thought of as gifts... and not an impairment. What we could achieve... I’m new to the terms semiotics, but I feel that learning more about this will teach me to understand myself. Or in the very least - it will help people understand and see through the bullshit in our world.

I study art history and for my exam I'll analyze a Vogue cover by the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí with Roland Barthes theory on myths. This video has been really helpful and educational, thank you so much! I'm subscribed now :)

When you are not Japanese, but understand everything they say because of the subtitles. Hahaha.

I study Theory of Cinema at Univ and finally after 4 years, with this vid, the semiotic thing got a clear vision, thanks man!!!! :-)

It's 4am here but I love watching your videos! I've been drowning in work and this semester including online distance learning because of the pandemic I've been feeling defeat cause I can barely understand any of my subjects but your videos make it so much better for me and I find myself in love with learning again. Thank you so much! Sincerely, a girl from Malaysia

Just started Semiotics in a uni module and this really helped my understanding. Thanks 🙌🏻

There are some really great videos about semiotics on youtube, this is one of 'em. Fantastic bro.

Finally!! A video with new information! Im so glad i watched it, I watch alot of vids about storytelling and films and most of them are just paraphrasing eachother. This one was fresh.

Thank you for this. I've been stuck on a question about defining semiotics for literal days now, this really helped me out.

This was the perfect balance between concise and informative, extremely helpful, thanks :)

thank you so much for the explanation, I am in the middle of writing my thesis and I have to analyse movies, this was really helpful

This is really cool. Semiotics is one discipline that has been hovering around the peripheries of my fields of interest and I low-key meant to learn more in-depth for quite long. Not directly related to the topic but you reminded me of how bland and claustrophobic typical Japanese flats are. I was taking it so much for granted that I didn't notice these factors in analysing the scene since I was born and raised in Japan. Tales of Terror from Tokyo is a great localised title btw, I'm a sucker for alliteration.

I'm studying for a teacher's state exam (ESOL K-12), and one of the sample questions involved the word semiotics. Not comfortable with my knowledge with that word, I Googled information searching "semiotics of culture." I read a number of dense articles that only served to confuse me more. Then I saw your video which opened my mind up to a better understanding.

Stumbled upon your page and im completely engrossed. Never felt drawn into a video!

Got this video link from my professor for my communication class. Great video, Thanks!

I'm a media student and I just wanted to let you know that you helped me get the best grades I could so thanks for tha

Uni made me watch this, very nice lecture but i don't appreciate your example, scared the shit out of my pants at 2 am...

using this to help prepare me for my midterm. thank you

I understood more with this 9 minute video than the last 5 weeks in uni

Well done! Thank you! This was extremely helpful for my students. Cheers.

I’m so happy I discovered this channel bc made easier to understand stuff for my colleg tests❤

Weirdly enough, the same day I was confused about the term you posted this video. I finally got to watch it and you have no idea how thankful I am to you 👐 my cultural studies' final is coming soon, this was super helpful 👌

damn it. I understand russian

Your explanation is excellent even an average person can understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. ARYUBOWAN! (SRI LANKAN way of wishing, meaning 'may you live long!')

Ahah jokes on you I watch anime so I literally understood that entire video lol

Thanks for this, I'm taking a class with a film component and was having trouble understanding the difference between signifier/signified

I had to read a Barths' novel (The Sot Weed Factor) in a Comp. Lit. class in college. At the time I thought to myself: This is a writer who has way to much time on his hands and very little to think about. That was 50 years ago and I see no reason to revisit that opinion. It also convinced me that in communicating with others brevity is the is the best tool.

Interesting and great presentation regarding the polysemic nature of signs

this was very useful for my class

The study of signs Signs apple logo Signifier 1. Denotation the literal meaning 2. Connotation Chinese sweat shops or high end consumer tech

Thank you so much, this video is so worthy.. I understood the topic so easily!

yes!!! Love these videos, thank you !! Can’t wait for more

I'm not Japanese but I understand some of the Russian subtitles. Pladimir Vutin would be proud. On another note, this video on semiotics reminds me of when I was analysing American Psycho. I was looking at the paintings on the wall and noticed a lot of stencil like human figures in corporate wear. Even the stark white wall had a meaning. I believe the stencil art signified a sort of coldness and starkness of corporate culture; which was probably what triggered the protagonist, Patrick Bateman. Now I'm going to look at the world around me differently.

Thank you so much for the simple and great explanation.

I think in reality signs are selected a lot of times because of budgetary reasons, or because that’s the only thing they had available when shooting. That’s an aspect of media studies that I rarely see addressed. It’s especially relevant in todays amateur productions for RU-vid etc

Great video. Quite informative. Waiting for more such content.

Really helpful for revising my A Level mocks! Are you going to do any A Level theory videos?

Wow...I understand everything now! Brill

I love this video and the information given, is it possible for you to please upload a censored/clean version for use in showing my photography students? They're middle school (they've definitely heard worse), but naturally I'd like to keep things safe for work in the classroom.

Thank you so much for this one. It really helped me. Congrats. :)

Language is hard to ignore especially if u understand them 😂

Very helpful.

Well Done! Thank you!

If you teach lighting, you might consider upping your game in this video regarding the lights.

Apple also means the apple Eve gave Adam. Lots of meaning there.

Thanks bro for allowed us to dive a little bit in to the symbolism world. Could you make a video analyzing "new york city boy´s pet shop´s video? I know that that video was the beggining of a big programming for a whole generation By the way Im here out of curiosity, you are my first video on the topic, so Im going through your chanel´s videos in order to learn more.

why do i feel like i have learned this somewhere in music theory...like how each sound might have different meaning, different tone means something else entirely from having no sound( ambience, but too much might turn into terror)

Excellent as always!

Hi, would you recommend me any bibliographic texts in wich these 4 categories of signs are discussed? thank you!

im shivering...

Thank you, this was helpful.

Terrific teacher!

dude thanks for the easy summary,

‘You’ve no idea what they’re saying.’ *scoffs in Japanese*

Thank you so much. This was so helpful !!

thank you so much. u really give a great explanation.

thanks alot for this!

Amazing content!

That weird moment, when video is about signs and I understood both Russian and Japanese.

Hey, I am currently writing my bachelor thesis on Representation in Documentary films and I am analysing the music played in the film. Your video really helped me understand the semiotic approach. May I ask to what texts you are referring to, so that I can quote them in my thesis? Thanks!

Grate video! helped a lot. Thank you!

Loved it!

Thank you!

*Can we get a GCSE Media Studies OCR Revision Live Stream Asap?*

Hello! I just discovered your channel and it seems like it's gonna be very useful for me! I'm starting my thesis on mexican film Y tu mamá también. I'm planning on doing a semiotic analysis of it so I wanted to ask you in which works of Barthes does he introduce and explain the concepts you mentioned? It'd be so helpful! Thank you in advance

Fantastic video, thank you. Also, Barthes is pronounced 'Bart', like Bart Simpson.

After watching this, I realized how much of this I do in my daily life: staging.

Thanks a lot for this

Helped a lot, thank you so much!

Thank you and good luck

Very useful, thank you!

U are my teacher..

Great clip and explanation of Semiotics such as at the start with the Apple logo. Just one thing, Mise-en-Scene is a French word, and it's pronounced 'Me-Zon-San' : dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/mise-en-scene. but as you stated, and as Film Student (Bachelor of Film (Production) and Master of Moving Image) it means 'to put into the scene' as you described, shot types, lens and sound design. Great work though.

Thought that Apple symbol was a stand in for e-waste?

Very helpful thanks sir

Isn't lighting apart of Semiotics? Or would that just go alongside with camera work?

hi could you make a video on Baudrillard's theory of postmodernism please

Such a great video! Although, his name is pronounced Bart, not Bar-thez :)

Thank you 🥰

Hello, can you divulge into some communication problems Semiotics addresses? Thanks and i look forward to your response.

i cant sleep tonight. scared the hell out of me

very helpful

when i saw inside llewyn davis i SCREAMED i love that movie

Hahah I cant even, I understood most of the words and knew what was being said 🤣

wheres that link you were talking about?

4:30 jokes on you I've watched enough anime to understand every single word

Do you mind going over global reach on music videos? Great videos

amazing video, :)

What is semiotics of handwriting?

Shouldn't mise-en-scene include the other three categories(sound, camerawork and editing)?

How does ur snowball sound so good?

Hi there, I really enjoy your videos. I am looking for some content on the challenges of representation. Will you please advise me? TIA :)

Hi. Thanks for the video. I’m looking to do a critical analysis of some advertisements looking at race and gender mostly. I’m told I need to be doing semiotic analysis. For someone with zero background in media studies, what books would you suggest that can be used to perform the analysis? The easiest to understand with least jargon. Thanks again.

Name of the movie?

What movie was that?

Thanks sir keep going

"You can't understand a word they're saying." Me, who studied Japanese in school: OwO

What kind of relationship to semiotics do blind people have?