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ERIC Number: EJ1195101
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0004-3125
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Interpreting Visual Semiotics with the Music Video "Man in the Mirror" in Art Education
Hasio, Cindy; Chen, Wei
Art Education, v71 n3 p45-50 2018
In this era of rapid development in multimedia and technology, there is a growing awareness of the use of multiple semiotic resources in meaning-making (Fei, 2004). Music videos specifically harbor meaning within their semiotic features of visual communication. They also exert an enormous influence on the popularity of music (Fei, 2004). Music videos have grown into a popular genre of entertainment in many cultures and societies around the world (Austerlitz, 2008). Videos are becoming more conceptual, with symbolic representations of meaning acting as a semiotic resource for the storylines and themes of a song. In art education, semiotic resources may include various types of "texts" such as written language, still images, moving images, and audio sounds (O'Halloran, 2004). In this article, the authors explore how the construction of meaning takes place across audio and visual elements, and how a music video, "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson, can be interpreted through multiple semiotic resources in art education. The authors also describe how multiple semiotics (visual and audio) are combined to amplify different parts of the song and to create the context for new meaning. The context of visual culture is constantly changing; thus, people can change their interpretations of any given representation (Freedman, 2003).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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