'The Meeting' Ideas/Thoughts 5

    I recently in contextual studies I learned about semantics. And I realised that I can use different meanings behind objects and how people may perceive the use of objects to create emotions and to set the mood. I have already done this with the placement of particular items such as the use of the order of service to let the audience know about Matt's death in the story, but I wanted to delve further into this.
    The use of semiotics is used all around us, it is how we understand literal signs, language and basically everything. For example, if you saw a sign that said stop you would understand what it meant, and we understand this as it is in our language as well as the fact as the word stop on stop signs are written in a bold forceful font. But if a foreign person who doesn't speak English or has never seen a stop sign in their native country sees a stop sign, they will not know what it means. Also sometimes things can have multiple meanings that can be generally or personally received differently. You can look at the colour red and it can signify love as it is the colour of love, but it can also signify death or danger as it is the colour of blood and is used a lot in warning signs. I have used this technique and will further apply it to my script, mainly with the characters dialogue.
    As the character Matt isn't actually dead and it is possibly the other way round with Holly actually being the one hurt in the accident, I wanted to have double meaning behind the choice of words Matt uses to talk to Holly with. I already have done this by not having Matt clearly saying that he is dead to Holly. He, for the majority of the time, talks to her as if nothing is wrong which also adds to grabbing the audiences attention to the story with the unusualness with the conversations Matt and Holly are having. To be honest if I was in Matt's situation I would be telling Holly that I love her, miss her and that she needs to move on or something along those lines, this may also be what the audience might be feeling. But instead of this, Matt for the majority of the time just says her name which can come across as creepy, mysterious and confusing. All these things have multiple meanings and puts in the mind of the audience that the story is heading towards a certain direction, even though it isn't going to be the outcome of the story. This will make the story more interesting by making the audience think what going to happen next and get them excited to see what happens.