Video Essay #1

Codes and Conventions

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Video Essay #1

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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 for Film
  • Lighting
  • Sound
  • Editing
  • Camera
Symbolic codes for Film
  • Colour
  • Mise-en-scene
  • Visual composition
  • Acting
  • Setting
Written codes of Film:
  • Dialogue
  • Language
Narrative 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.

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
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  • HOME
  • Year 10 Media
    • Auteur Folio
    • Camera Basics
    • Film Analysis
  • Units 1 and 2
    • UNIT 1.1 - Media Representations
    • Unit 1.2 - Media Forms in Production >
      • Villains and Victims
      • Audiences and Advertising
    • Unit 1.3 - Australian Stories
    • Unit 2.1 - Narrative, Style and Genre >
      • The Julie Project
      • Joker
    • Unit 2.2 - Narratives in Production
    • Unit 2.3 - Media and Change >
      • Educational Campaign
    • Exam Revision
  • Units 3 and 4
    • Unit 3.1 - Narrative and Ideology >
      • Ideology
      • American Beauty
      • Get Out
      • Audiences
      • Characteristics of Construction
      • Video Essay #1 - Codes and Conventions
      • Video Essay #2 - Ideology
      • SAC/Exam prep
    • Unit 3.2 Media Production Development >
      • Pre-Production Experiments
      • Production Pitch!
      • Assessment
      • exam prep
    • Unit 3.3 - Media Production Design
    • Unit 4.1 - Media Production
    • Unit 4.2 - Agency and Control in and of the Media >
      • Communication Theories
      • Regulation
      • Influential Forms of Media
      • Positive/negative examples
      • Legal and Ethical Issues
      • Video essays
      • SAC/Exam Prep
    • Past student work
    • End of Year Exam