There was once a Frenchman who came up with multiple codes that are used in thriller's to create or conceal information from the audience, or even use objects with meaning to create an atmosphere and a basis for a storyline.
Action Code: The audience will recognise an action code in media text as it is used to indicate what is the next logical step. It advances a narrative, for example, starting a car engine means that someone could drive away, or the buckling of a gun belt in a wild west film signifies the start of a gun fight.
Mystery Code or Enigma Code: This code is used to explain the narrative by controlling what and how much information to the audience. it grabs the audience's interest and attention by setting up an enigma or problem that is resolved during the course of the narrative. For example, we don't know who this guy is because he has concealed his face. We might find out later who he is.
Semic Code: Basically this code is al about signs and meanings in a text that tell us about its narrative and character. For example, male and female represent two different genders.
Cultural Code: This code is used in order for the narrative to make sense to a culturally and socially aware audience. For example, these men are in working clothes and are eating their lunch at their job of building a skyscraper. this implies that they are working class because they don't look rich themselves.
Code of Oppositions: This code refers to a narrative that relies on binary opposites. War and Peace are binary opposites, because war represents violence but peace represents tranquillity.
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