Meaning - P2(f)

Meaning is what is being meant by words, action or a concept. Its important to know the meaning because it gives us more details about the media products and makes us aware of the reason for a particular action or settings

The action is happening in a tough district in Atlanta so the language used contains a lot of aggressive words and violent phrases. Even small children are showed offending the police. The costumes also create a meaning, for example bikes are dressed in leather coats with beards, bandanas and sunglasses. The music used during an action scene has a fast pace and matches the action that is happening. Props like rifles and grenades shows that its an action movie. Meaning throughout this movie is also created using the colours, throughout the whole movie the lighting is genrally dark to show how intense some action scenes are. In an intense part of the movie the music is also intense following the action in the film.

Meaning throughout the film is also created such tools as connotation and denotation. For example at the start of the movie the passport dealer calls the police detective crazy. So he doesn't directly mean that he is mentally unstable he is thinking about the connotation of him being aggressive and doing something dangerous.