Fame, Celebrity, our culture and Photography

The Fame Game. Ill be writing about fame, celebrity, our culture and photography in this blog.


Hello magazine was released in the UK in 1988, just for the record I have never once thought about buying a magazine of this sort. For me hello magazine is for people who are obsessed with celebrity culture and have ridiculously dull lives themselves. Buying this magazine probably brightens up their boring week, and gives them gossip information which they can tell their insipid friend’s with their uninteresting conversations. I am far from one of these people and I feel sorry for the people whose lives have ended up like this.

I want to get on to Kerry Katona and Katie Price, these two have it seems to me, are on hundreds of magazine covers, TV adverts, celebrity programmes, interviews. It’s unbelievable how so many people in the UK are so interested in their talent less pair of clueless idiots. I would rather shoot myself then listen to an interview with the dimwit herself Kerry Katona. Who is she? Where did she appear from? What has she done to have brought herself to the statue of the so called “celebrity” of today? All I know is that she’s wasting my life, ever time I hear her irritating voice on t.v. I could rant about these fools all day, however I have already done my two hundred words so talking about them is wasting my time even more.

Coming to my conclusion I not going to say magazine’s like this need to stop, since like I said earlier its helping out the uninteresting people of the UK. Yes these magazine do fund dim-witted, talent less photographers, to photograph simple shots for big money. I’m defiantly not saying I'm dim-witted nor talent less but I would happily photograph Katie Price’s tits for big money. But that is not the road I am going down for, I want to photograph something that truly does interest me, that for me is the sporting industry.

Semiotics

Semiotics
The study of signs and communication

Semiotics is the understanding of signs and what they represent. Language is the way we understand representation. There is two mains types of signs, iconic and indexical. Iconic usually takes the form of images or sounds and tends to represent what is actually seen or heard, For example a picture of a beer. However indexical signs tend to take the form of written or spoken images. An indexical signs points at reality, rather than trying to mimic it exactly. For example if you see smoke immediately you think of fire because you know that fire causes smoke. Breaking down signs can also be done by noticing a sight such as thirty miles per hour limit sign along the road to some people from a different country this would be seen as just number in a red circle but to us in this country we see it as the speed limit in which we must follow (Signified)

All good advertiser’s use these techniques because they know photos of their products would get noticed more and people will react to them in their own way. For example when people see a photo of a beer, they automatically remember previous good times from this beer, making them want to buy it again.