Textual Analysis Revision

VISUAL CODES:

• Clothing and physical appearance
• Gesture and body language
• Facial expressions
• Settings
• Use of colour
• Any use of graphics (anchorage?)
• Denotation/Connotation
• Intertextuality

TECHNICAL CODES:

• Shots - range of shots and why they're used - wide shots? close ups? high/low angle shots?
• Any camera movement?
• Editing - the way scenes change from one to the next
• The pace of the text- fast? slow? why?
• Lighting
• Mise en Scene - what's in the shot?

AUDIO CODES:

• Sound - diegetic (natural sounds from within the scene) and non diegetic (sound from outside the scene- music added in)
• Any ambient noise
• Voice over
• Music