A code is how a convention make you feel emotionally and think / understand why something has been use e.g. silence in a horror film will show suspense or tension to make us feel scared and to get us hooked on whats going to happen .
What is a convention ?
A convention is something you would expect in a certain genre e.g. horror you would expect thunder and lightning , blood ,death etc.
Your material is well presented within the blog with good use made of graphics to identify genres in an engaging visual way. As a development here, you could now try to employ an online media tool such as Prezi to present an objective of this kind. This would allow you to annotate graphics and integrate video in your analysis.
ReplyDeleteYou successfully list a number of conventions from each of the four genres you’ve chosen to explore, comedy, horror, action/adventure, sci-fi.
Your paraphrasing of what is meant by the media specific terms “convention” and “code” is fairly good.
However, you do not go on to explore technical codes at work. This is an area for development. Anchor yourself with a specific moving image extract and explore how technical elements such as CAMERA, SOUND, MISE-EN-SCÈNE, EDITING or SPECIAL EFFECTS (which may also be conventions of the genre) are used to: communicate with / manipulate / engage the audience; and lead the audience to understand / think / feel / expect certain things.
A good homework. D