Week Five - The Image as Message: Signs, Symbols, and the Art of Semiotics

Semiotics
The dictionary definition for semiotics states that it is 'a study of signs and symbols, what they mean and how they are used'. What we see is called a denotation and what we think when we see a sign or symbol is called a connotation. There is the meaning of semiotics in signs and symbols but it can also apply to people such as celebrities that have personas/aliases.

Personas
Beyonce/Sasha Fierce

The woman on the left is Beyonce Knowles and the woman on the right is Sasha Fierce. They are both the same person but they act very differently to one another. Beyonce is calm and serene where as Sasha Fierce is loud, confident and dances on stage. These are the two versions of this woman but which one is real? I feel because of all the pressure she is put under from the media and the public, she needs a persona to live her life. She would go on the stage as Sasha Fierce, ready for anything and to dance and sing loud. But when she is done she can go back to being Beyonce.
Colours and feelings - My personal thoughts.
Red - Anger, Danger, Blood, Hot, Love, Passion.               
Yellow - Sunny, Flowers, Teeth.                                          
Pink  - Girly, Happy, Fun.                                                    
Green - Nature, Slime, Mould, Smelly, Snotty.                    
Orange - Fruit, Citrus, Fresh.                                                
White - Heavenly, Clean, Fresh, Snow.
Purple - Sad, Goth, Dark.                                                      
Blue - Water, Tears, Boys, Cold, Ice.                                   
Brown - Mucky, Muddy, Chocolate, Wood, Trees, Nature. 
Black - Death, Darkness, Scared, Blind, Slimming.             

I decided to write a few thoughts that pop into my head when I think of a colour. Some of my thoughts are because the colour is the same as something I am thinking of such as chocolate is brown but others I can't understand why I think of them. Why is black scary? Is it because when I was a child I would be scared of the dark when I went to sleep, because I couldn't see anything. I only think these things because of what I have been told. Why do I think the colour white is heavenly? When I picture Heaven I see white clouds and everyone wearing white, but is Heaven even real? It's just what I have been told, I've never seen heaven or been there so why do I think it's white?

Figures.
Figure 1 - Beyonce/Sasha Fierce.