Semiotics- The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.
Connotations- An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
There are four boxes in this poster that represent the face of the girl in the film 'if i stay'. The rest of the boxes show different scenes throughout the film that give us a clue as to what it is about. The title of the film itself isn't included in the boxes but is in fact underneath with other information.
The use of the four boxes to show the girls face show that in one of the boxes the colouring is more bold than the other three boxes which are more faded. This may be because of the story of the girl being in a life or death situation so the faded boxes suggest her when she was losing her life and the bold box tells us that she was fighting for her life. The faded boxes take over the bold box which shows how serious her battle was. The stories told in each of the other boxes show love between the young boy and girl and also the parents of the girl as each couple hold each other. But then a juxtaposition is shown when an ambulance is in one of the images showing us that something terrible had happened.
