Nothing meaningful exists outside the techniques humans have created to communicate. The production of these techniques - spoken language, static and moving images, recorded sound, produces a temporary fixation of meaning. The areas of digital media representation consists of film, television, photography, print, virtual reality, and multimedia. A starting point for understanding representation is the systematic study of signs, often called Semiotics . Denotation and Connotation are important semiotic distinctions.
Myths are complex organizations of meaning and signs.
Film creators draw heavily on myths to create their stories. The classic example is Star Wars but almost all films can be shown to have a mythic structure. Film Semiotics contributed to the debate on Film as a Language . Robert Scholes made distinctions about Narrative, Narration and Narrivity in Film.