Apocalypse now

Apocalypse now

1. Fire

   • At the start there was smoke at the bottom of the screen. This shows an indexical symbol as it resembles fire.
   • Iconic symbol. The camera view shows them getting bombed creating a fire.

2. Guy smoking

3. Soldier

   • Looking into the empty glass. Seeming that he is regretting decisions that he has done.
   • Guy seems reminisce about what he has done wrong as the fan reminds of the helicopter
   • Facial expression show that he is depressed as the alcohol is used up. Seems restless and seems like he couldnt stop thinking about it as he keeps on blinking
   • Dress code
     • Typical dress code of a soldier is a vest and cargo trousers.
   • The solider has a desk full of army collections such as army necklace this gives us the genre of the film as its based on army/action film.

4. Forest

   • by the image at the beginning of the palm trees, it give us a holiday feeling meaning peacefulness and safety which is also shown by the colour green

5. Colour codes

   • After bombing went down the scene was full of black smoke which associates with death and power as the army shown that by bombing this forest

6. Indexical symbol

7. Iconic symbol

8. Non verbal codes

9. The forest full of palm trees gives an exotic atmosphere and with the helicopter flying by bombing the forest shows that this place is a war zone. The guy that is shown to us has a desk full of army stuff this ties us to a army based film. By having this information we know its based on the vietnam war as we see palm trees and they wasnt based in any war before.