Reflexões sobre o processo semiótico da identidade televisiva: o sonoro, o visual e o verbal nas vinhetas

Abstract

Television identity is part of the corporate identity of a broadcasting station, a very influential medium with a high penetration rate, mainly in Brazil. Consisting of on-air vignettes during commercial breaks, this piece of audiovisual design aims to identify the channel, organize the set of programs and convey the branding message of the station. Under the logic of the market, television identity seeks to create a solid organizational image, causing identification with the viewer, as a way to ensure audience loyalty in an increasingly competitive sector such as television. Regarding television identity as a complex sign composed of sound, visual and verbal signs, it conveys meanings that are shared with consumers. When watching a television channel, viewers manifest their own identity before society. The aim of this dissertation is to examine how television identity, one of the expressions of the brand, creates this identification with the viewer. Understanding design as a language and television identity as part of a semiosis, the hypothesis is that on-air vignettes generate beliefs in viewers, forming habits of conduct, that is, habits of consumption. The theory guiding this study was Charles Sanders Peirce s philosophy and semiotics because it is a suitable tool for theoretical analysis of a hybrid medium par excellence television in a context of post-modernity. We also used Lucia Santaella s theory of matrixes of language and thought and a bibliography about the other areas of knowledge that comprise this multidisciplinary theme. The analysis of this semiotic object includes the different types of signs which constitute it, because the communicative richness of television identity is achieved through the interrelations between sound, visual and verbal signs, generating multiple possibilities of interpretation. Therefore, the research sought to emphasize the importance of design in the semiotic process of creation and transmission of messages and its relationship with other languages that take part in the television medium.