Media and Information Language

• Media Languages - codes, conventions, format, narrative structure, and symbols that indicate the meaning of messages to an audience.
• Genre - type or class in French
• Codes - signs that creates meaning
• Convention - generally accepted way of doing something
• Technical Codes

  • Equipment
  • Camera
  • Special Effects
  • Editing
  • Lighting
  • Sounds
  • Symbols
• Written Codes

  • Typography
  • Text
  • Graphics
• Symbolic Codes

  • Body Language
  • Color
  • Sound
  • Object
  • Clothing
  • Setting
• Movies

  • Rings
  • Max Steel
  • Central Intelligence
  • Miracles from Heaven
  • Jack Reacher