Semiotics of Images

The Semiotics of an image can come under two different labels; ‘Denotations’ and ‘Connotations’.

‘Denotations’ of an image are what the image obviously is and the literal sense of what we can see.
‘Connotations’ of an image are what we can infer from the image; what the image might suggest.

In my school magazine, I would hope to use images that include children, to represent the ‘School’ factor of my magazine. So far, I am currently unsure about the exact image, but I would hope to use some sort of comical imagery, which would be related to the School sub-genre and the article that it is based upon.