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This study aims to analyze the semiotic meanings and to find out the types of gestures in the BTS Blood, Sweat, and Tears In theory, Roland Barthes discusses three semiotic meanings: denotative, connotative, and myth. This study uses qualitative methods to examine the substance of the meaning of the phenomenon. Researcher used books, theses, journals, and visual images taken from the BTS Blood, Sweat, and Tears music video as data sources to support analysis. The results of this study: there are 10 data where each data has one to four scenes. From the 10 data, there are types of gestures which include 6 data belonging to the illustrator gesture type, 2 data including the embellishment gesture type, and 2 data belonging to the illustrator gesture type. Of all the semiotics presented, the meaning of this music video is the story of resistance, denial, and eventually acceptance. Once cannot stand in the museum of their life forever and look longingly at the mementos of the past. The world is a place of complex relationships between light and dark, good and evil, virtuosity and sin. As we all cross the threshold of puberty we are faced with the choices that shape our lives. No one person is immune to the temptations of such a life and seeing it, understanding it for what it is, and making those choices is all we can do. No one remains untouched by the darkness.

Sedeng Sang is a film that tells the story of the conflict between families who have different views on the continuation of their children's education, because of the family's lower class economic background. Poverty is still an obstacle for people to get access to proper education because the income that is considered to support life is very uncertain, as farmers use traditional tools. The aim of this film is to invite viewers to reflect on the social situation of underprivileged families as a reality that still occurs today. The films presented show various conditions of poverty through clothing, food, shelter, and work. The research carried out aims to analyze how poverty is present in the film Sedeng Sang. The semiotic theory developed by Roland Barthes was chosen because it is in accordance with the research objectives in obtaining the results of this research. This research also uses descriptive qualitative to obtain results and explain the research results to be achieved. This research produces an analysis of the representation of poverty in the film Sedeng Sang as well as Roland Barthes' theory as a method that displays denotative, connotative and myth.