Create a page in your Media Studies OneNote called codes and conventions. Read over the following codes and conventions page and watch the associated videos. Make sure you keep detailed notes in your OneNote.
Narrative and Ideology ^^Click this link to read all about codes and conventions of film-making
Technical codes
Lighting
Sound
Editing
Camera
Symbolic codes
Colour
Mise-en-scene
Visual composition
Acting
Setting
Written codes:
Dialogue
Language
Film Conventions
Point of view
Opening, development, resolution
Character development
Cause and effect
Storyline
Structure of time
Your task is to choose a scene from a film of your choice and create a 2-4 minute video essay that analyses the use of AT LEAST 4 codes and 2 conventions. You must explain how the codes and conventions are used in the movie to create meaning for the audience.
You will be showing your video essay to the class on the first day back in Term 1 2021.
Your video essay can be as simple as recording your voice over the scene as it plays. If you need to pause on certain moments you could play the movie while screen recording your laptop. Here is how to do it on a mac and here is how to do it on a PC
Here are 2 examples. One from Get Out (made by Jeremy Mo) and one from American Beauty
