Art and Reception Theory Essay

Submitted By sblock12
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LO2-Understand creative media products in the context of their reception.

Introduction.

In this essay assignment I’m going to explain the theoretical approaches to the content within their reception and I will also go through all the different aspects needed to make the film. In this assignmentI will also discuss all the different theory’s and how they all have an understanding of the audience reception; and mainly they differ from each other all having their own history and have ways of adding something to most major Hollywood and other films. As I have chosen the two die hard films in the lo1 part of this unit i will expand on how reception theories is included and how all the other techniques take place as media has changed rapidly and there are new expansions and the newer films uses it more effectively. The reason I’m examining these films is one it’s a very interesting story and to build on how I have discussed in the beginning part of the unit the rapid change in media within the two films both same character and story line but a newer versions just shows how important these techniques and receptions theory is within media.

Connotations and Denotations
The relationship between the words and meanings is extremely complicated, and belongs to the field of semantics; the words do not have single, simple meanings. Traditionally, grammarians have referred to the meanings of words in two parts: denotation A literal meaning of the word.

connotation

Association (emotional or otherwise) which the word evokes.

But people nowadays have different meaning for the words, but an example of this could be the house defiantly has a rectangle door this denotation and on the other hand there different colour doors and different bells etc this could be the connotation. Within media these two