Media Codes and Conventions
Technical Codes - Technical Codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.
Symbolic Codes - Symbolic Codes show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions show you how the character is feeling.
Conventions - Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.
Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Connotation - An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Mise-en-Scéne - "Placing on stage"- The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing (actors, lighting décor, props, costume, frame and camerawork.)
Technical Codes - Technical Codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.
Symbolic Codes - Symbolic Codes show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions show you how the character is feeling.
Conventions - Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.
Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Connotation - An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Mise-en-Scéne - "Placing on stage"- The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing (actors, lighting décor, props, costume, frame and camerawork.)
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