Research

SEMIOTICS 

Semiotics - The study of signs, indications, likeness, metaphors, symbolism, communication, and iconography.

Semiotical Products 

Icon - A semiotical object that directly resembles the object. For example, a photograph of a pipe is a pipe; a photograph of London is London.

Index - A sign that has an implied logical association with the object.

Symbol - A sign that is not inherently connected to the object. The connection between the two is a conventional one, particular to a culture of society that is taught. For example, the Star of David symbolizes Judaism. 

Semitiocal Analysis of Selected Media Product

DAVID HOCKNEY

David Hockney is a British painter who specializes in the painting of pop-art style works. His collection of works primarily includes artistic impressions of the English countryside and paintings tied to dimension and space.

Below are a few of his creations:

This is a painting of a rural road descending down a hillside and into the farmlands below. David has depicted geographical space by rescaling assets depending on their distance from the viewer's point of view and withdrawing texture and color diversity from assets that are further away from the viewer's point of view.

It is related to location because of the depiction of the geographical dimensions of the viewer's surroundings. 

  

This painting depicts a landscape that is comprised of several environments and habitats ranging from natural to man-made scenes. This painting reveals how radically different and dissimilar they are when compared.

As to its relevance to location, it demonstrates the diversity and the almost infinite range of the noun "location". 

 
Storytelling in Video Games Document

For this stage of the project, I was expected to fashion a rough sketch of an imaginary environment that encompasses the concept of environmental storytelling.

I envision the environment to be a fantasy, fictitious, ecological, and subterranean habitat never before seen by man. It features exotic and otherworldly plant and animal life specially adapted to live underground.

As the story goes, the player and two or three other members of a mining party were victims of a mining accident: the unsupported ground beneath their feet collapsed without warning and they plummeted into a large cavern and into an underground lake. All miners were killed by falling debris except the player. The accident led to the discovery of a hidden, flourishing, subterranean ecosystem unspoiled for millennia. 

I would imply this story by the addition of fallen rocks and mining gear in the lakebed and an opening on the cavern ceiling.  

  

APRIL GREIMAN

April Greiman is an American graphic designer merited by many as the first designer to produce works of art computationally. 

April was born in New York City, New York on the 22nd of March, 1948. From 1966 to 1970, she was an undergraduate at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied graphic design, photography, and ceramics.

Below are a few of her artworks:

This poster is chiefly typographical because of the presence of large bodies of text coupled with small and subordinated lines of text set at a small point in size to conserve space for further elements.   

Alongside textual elements, there are edited photographic and geometric elements that are used for extra effect and for legible text.