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Breaking Bad Poster - Semiotics


Semiotics:

Denotation: The stacked barrels in the background feature yellow radioactive signs.
Connotation: This connotes danger and a possible safety hazard.

Denotation: The only colour used other than the title is on the radioactive suits.
Connotation: This connotes that the two men are somehow related to the radioactive barrels.

Denotation: The two men are standing in an upright pose.
Connotation: This connotes that they're confident and have intent.

Denotation: There are things falling from the sky in the background.
Connotation: The objects falling from the sky could be radioactive fallout or ash, this has connotations of an explosion or eruption.

Denotation: The first two letters of the title look like elements of a periodic table.
Connotation: There are scientific connotations.