Lecture about sci-fi and semiotics.

Bill caried on talking about where we pretty much left off last week lecture, also by correcting Ivan saying there are three types of semiotics, which are:

First:                 Symbol: arbitary or linguistic

Second:             Icon: likeness or resemblance

Third:                Index: existentially linked (where is smoke there is fire)

Andre Bazan- All photographs are dead masks.

Also analogue photography was replaced by digital which means that now it can be manipulated easily, no need to care anymore about if the shot is good or bad just take hundreds of photos and see which is good or bad, combine together, crop etc?

After that bit we moved on to Sci-Fi bit and genres in general that movies connected to each other... in example star wars movies took many many things from other sources as inspiration for their own... 

Also Bill said that all sci-fi movies are being critisized that they are all the same and they have no good plot and its just excuse to put in all the visual effects.

Most movies can be related to few genres at a time, in example Sci-fi, action and buddy comedy eg "Men in Black". 

Apart from that Bill was talking about that most sci-fi movies have something where people rise their powers and unleash it as they can control everything. Also we spoke about robots taking over... in example matrix movie etc...

Overall I dont have many thoughts about that lecture as we were not given many facts to think about and whatever we spoke about wasnt given clearly enough to understand it completely in depth. However I got the concept of the idea with the sci-fi movies that they keep repeating themselves...