Friday 7 February 2014

Codes and Conventions


Codes and Conventions:



  • Low key lighting 
  • Faint images
  • Foreshadowing of death/bloodshed
  • Isolation
  • Scenary - rural
  • Foreshadowing
  • Psycopath/killer - glimpse of character
  • Sets Equilibrium
  • Knife - foreshadowing physical weapons
  • Medical imagery - experiments
  • Dark clothing - not suits, jeans, t-shirt and trainers
  • Handheld footage - intensifies the particular area for the audience
  • General slow paced editing - longer duration of time for the audience to observe specific characteristics
  • Orchestral music
  • Scrape like sounds - dissonant sounds
  • Words scraped - engraved into materials - suggests or foreshadows something
  • Connotations of weapons
  • Connotations of blood  
  • Hand held - shaky - unbalance 
  • Close ups - close ups of weapons, characters (abstracts of character qualities)
  • Tracking shot
  • Point of view shot
  • High and low angles 
  • Birds eye view
  • Worm eye
  • Pan movement 
  • Establishing shot


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