Rock Genre - Encoding and Decoding

Guns ‘n’ Roses - "Paradise City"

"Youtube" link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbm6GXllBiw&ob=av2e

Live performance show the thousands of fans, Sunglasses suggest tropical warm weather, associated with holidays 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

Signifiers
- Guitars, Instruments

Signified
- Band
- Rock, Rebelliousness, ‘epic’

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