Encoding & Decoding

Rock
Guns ‘n’ Roses
Paradise City

- Live performance show the thousands of fans
- Sunglasses suggest tropical warm weather, associated with holidays.
- Casual and ‘rocker’ dress sense is typical of the genre of music

Encoded

- Dress Sense – rocker, long hair, unkempt, Black
- Guitars, Head banging, High Energy Performances
- Lifestyle is busy
- Famous but have kept their roots

Decode

- Rebellious, Big performance for their fans.
- Enjoying their lifestyle
- Carefree personas

Signifiers
- Guitars, Instruments
- Load music

Signified
- Band
- Rock, Rebelliousness, ‘epic’

Conventions
- Smoking, drugs
- non-conformist lifestyles
- long hair, anarchy, youth, rocker fashion
- dark undertones, death



Pop

- Heartbreak, Relationships
- About the singer; not about the instruments
- A narrative to drive it

Encoded

- Relationships

Decode

- Unhappy / Melancholy

Signifiers

- Unrest
- Negative Body Language

Signified

- Distress / break up

Conventions

- Heartbreak, relationships
- Singer is the centre of the song