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This is my semiotics project. The character I used for this project was Charlie Chaplin I made two photoshopped images and one PAPERmache image. I made the paper mache image out of a balloon and newspaper and a few photoshopped pieces of paper that look like a dollar, this was the wealthy part of the project. My reason for this was so that my character was literally made of money, I even used the part of the dollar with his face on it for his eyes so it gave off the impression that he saw him self. It took me over a week to make his head because of the time i had to spend waiting for it to try and paint parts.
My second choice was the evil/badass option, i shopped Charlie into a fire background and swapped his cane for a pitchfork, i also added some images into the background, i believe these images to give off the evil representation. I also put a red hue around the character to make him stand out.
My last choice was the feminine option, I put Charlies face into a sun flower and added some red hearts around him as well as a bottle of perfume. There were already butterflies in the image but i changed them to a pink colour instead of a yellow one.
This is my semiotics project. The character I used for this project was Charlie Chaplin I made two photoshopped images and one PAPERmache image. I made the paper mache image out of a balloon and newspaper and a few photoshopped pieces of paper that look like a dollar, this was the wealthy part of the project. My reason for this was so that my character was literally made of money, I even used the part of the dollar with his face on it for his eyes so it gave off the impression that he saw him self. It took me over a week to make his head because of the time i had to spend waiting for it to try and paint parts.
My second choice was the evil/badass option, i shopped Charlie into a fire background and swapped his cane for a pitchfork, i also added some images into the background, i believe these images to give off the

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