Codes and convention

• Media codes and conventions pertain to the technical and symbolic ingredients or codes and conventions that media and information professionals may select and use in an effort to communicate ideas, information, and knowledge.
• Media codes are tools used to construct or suggest meaning in media forms and are products that have a commonly established meaning to the target audience.
• Symbolic codes, such as "Mise en scene", refer to everything within the frame.
• Technical codes mean the meaning of the product is not based on the product itself but on the interpretation of the audience.
• Conventions are common narrative structures and understandings that are common in story telling media products.
• Form convention refers to the specific ways we expect the types of media codes to be arranged.
• LANGUAGE pertains to the technical and symbolic ingredients or codes and conventions that media and information professionals may select and use in an effort to communicate ideas, information, and knowledge.
• MEDIA CODES are tools used to construct or suggest meaning in media forms and are products that have a commonly established meaning to the target audience.
• TECHNICAL CODES meaning of the product is not based on the product itself but on the interpretation of the audience.
• Main characters are being held down at the beginning of the story but at the end are successful is an example of Story Convention
• Marvel movies with short clips after the credits at the end of the movie is an example of Form Convention
• The two types of Convention are : Story Convention & Form Convention
• EXTREME CLOSE UP SHOT use when portraying extreme emotion of the character.
• PAN SHOT you move your camera horizontally; either left to right or right to left, while its base is fixated on a certain point.
• TRACK SHOT - when you move the entire camera from left to right.