Audiovisual and semiotics: some approaches resulting from the study of the adaptation of a literary piece into the animation language

Abstract

Audiovisuals's field is very ample and covers innumerable developments. A fascination with cinema, precisely animation, was the necessary motivation for the course's conclusion paper to be directed towards a production of an animated short film. A curiosity for the most diverse forms of adaptation of literary works into audiovisuals generated the challenge of immersing into the studies of discursive semiotics, intending to investigate the singularities of children's literature. The work entitled The blue halo rabbit refers to the chosen text under study and proposes an invitation to regard this incredibly complicated and intriguing world of linguistics, using the instruments of discursive semiotics, a wider space in the audiovisual universe. It's what the present article addresses, presenting, finally, the punctuated articulation of the text's plane of content to the plane of expression in animation's language.