Understanding of Fashion communication in Fashion and Films
a. Signifier and signified
b. Denotation and Connotation
c. The three roles involved in communicating through dress
d. The three rules on how to understand the meaning of dress
e. The three contexts involved in better understanding the meaning of dress
Fashion on the silver screen is used as a descriptive counterpart to the narrative counterpart of the film script to communicate and establish the emotional concerns of the actors/scene in a film to the audience.
Films are also a mode of communication; they communicate a story, an idea, and a concept. Films use visual cues such as props, costumes, facial expressions, movements as well as sound cues such as the dialogues. we use costumes/fashion as a visual cue in reality.
