Musicals. (Terrie)

Singing in the rain. 
There are many musical codes and conventions in singing in the rain. For example, there is a lot of slapstick used throughout this film which is important because not only is this a musical but it is also a comedy as well. A musical being a comedy as well is what is called a "sub-genre". A sub-genre is when a film is not only one genre but also has another genre, sometimes a few genres are put together. So, in singing in the rain you see comedy, a bit of western, action and romance as well. Having a variety of sub-genres is really good because it calls out to all types of audiences and entices a variety of different audiences into watching the film.

How does this relate to semiotics? 
By using slapstick, this represents that although you see him getting hurt he doesn't actually get hurt (connotation) and in-fact this is used for comedy and to humour the audience. Also, by having happy music in the background helps to make the audience feel happy as well as the characters feeling happy as well.

The other film we watched was Cabaret (1973), in this film the Nazi symbol is shown quite a bit. This relates to signs and semiotics because it tells us what time the film is based around and seeing the Nazis sign will make us gasp as it is a huge shock to see the Nazi symbol still because of all the bad things that. Also there is a part in the film where a man rubs mud above his lip which indicates that he's pretending to be Hitler. However, he is laughing at Hitler so it tells us that he is against the Nazis.
The women in the film are represented as quite weak as they are made to dance in a sexual manor for an audience of men. This re-enforces the stereotype that women do anything for men etc.