DYM2 Roland Barthes' Five Codes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnW_930nmQ

Enigma Code

• What is the picture of?
• Who is the man?
• Why does he have blood down his face?
• How is he related to the subject in the picture?
• Who is the man who has been killed?

Action Code

• Will the man go into the house where there could be danger-or will he leave
• Will the man use the gun- or was he just looking at it in case he needed to kill the man in the picture
• Will he kill the man- or himself
• Will he shot the man- or let him go
• Will he go down to the basement- or keep the man at gunpoint

Semiotic Code

• A bullet on the floor shows how a murder has taken place
• The deserted home connotes a sense of danger
• The gun immediately suggests the idea of danger and possibly death/murder
• Reference to the mans mental health connotes that an accident had previously taken place

Cultural Code

• The location is used to signify danger- an abandoned home and bullets in the car
• The man is shot 
• Before the man is shot there is a lot of movement and noise
• The man being shot is immediately followed by a blackout and silence

Symbolic Code

• A sense of danger- the opening scene shows a murder
• A sense that it isn't all set in the same time period- different setting, different colouring (black and white) makes the viewers feel as though we aren't watching the events systematically