If you put in the effort you want it to be as good as you can make it. In addition, our intended audiences, which include anthropologists and students among others, are well aware of visual media and have a highly developed sense of aesthetic tastes which lend to the efficay of any visual form created for the purpose of communicating ethnographic or cultural information. And finally, in this age of media saturation, those who will be the subjects and collaborators in these anthropological films have a desire to see themselves in a positive and well conceived light. A Semiotic Perspective on the Relationship between Text and Image Dr. Akinnaso's work focuses on the relationship between linguistic and image codes. Reflecting on the work of Roland Barthes, this paper suggests that language often plays a key role in providing the ideological grounding of images.
Language can frame the perspective from which images are, or are intended to be, read.
However, in his model of the relationship between language and image, Barthes did not recognize the importance of individual human agency in ultimately determining an image's meaning. An individual's reading of an image is not necessarily based in the grounding aspects of text, but is a result of that person's competency in reading the various levels of image and language codes within the text. Dr. Akinnaso implies that Barthes failed to realize that the meanings of linguistic signs, as well as the meanings of image signs are not static throughout time and space. The theoretical inspiration of Dr. Akinnaso's work is apparent throughout the papers presented in this panel. As he reminds us, anthropologists of visual communication often refer to linguistic models for studying visual images.