Theory of Shapes

The Theory of Shapes

     Today in class, we were given 3 particular shapes; a triangle, a square and a circle we then discussed it with the person next to us about what kinds of connotations (feeling) and denotation (literal) meanings do these shapes give us. These are some of them:

Triangle:

- Anger 

- Bermuda Triangle

- Dangerous
- Death
 - Evil
 - Harmful
 - Illuminati
 -  Pain
 - Sharp
 - Triforce
 - Violent
 - Uncaring

 Square:

 - Block

 - Boring

 - Box

 - Building

 - Confident 

 - Mature

 - Minecraft

 - Repetitive 

 - Strong

 - Strict

 - Square Enix

 - Trapped

 - Window

Circle:

- Coin 

- Fat

 - Friendly

 - Fun

 - Gentle

 - Globe

 - Harmless

 - Innocent

 - Kind

 - Pacman mouth closed

 - Soothing

 - Trustable

 - Ubisoft

 - World

     Once we finished with the task, we all get to watch an opening of  the TV drama "Dexter" and applied the theory of shapes to the opening. We were told beforehand that this was about a guy who help police investigate murders but himself was also a serial murderer and the opening was about his daily routine.

    Connotation: Feeling of someone getting silently being murdered.

    Denotation: A mosquito sucking out blood from someone's arm

   Connotation: Feeling of murderer cleaning up after murdering someone

   Denotation: Extreme close up of Dexter cleaning up the small wound of the razor blade cutting his      skin with a small tissue

   Connotation: Feeling of cutting with a triangle knife which gives audience feeling of harmful, evil and death to a circular shape such as the egg yolk and the blood orange.

   Denotation: Dexter cutting up meat for breakfast

   Connotation: Gives audience a feeling of someone being stranded to death with a rope

   Denotation: Dexter doing his shoe laces 

   Connotation: Sense of suffocation and insecure

   Denotation: Dexter putting on his tank top