Peju's Media Blog

Media Language refers to the codes and meanings of a specific piece of text or the mis-en-scene or the editing, sound or even camera movement. They all portray a significant meaning to the audience. Symbolic Code,Technical Code, Audio Code & Written Code are all of the media language codes included in films. I will be analysing all of these codes in my essay. Symbolic Codes are what are used to convey the theme/character. They are mainly props and colours of the trailer and/or the genre. In my summer trailer 'Don't Look Back' most of the characters are wearing quite bland/dark clothing, this colour has a deep connotation of death and mystery. The fact that almost all of them are wearing it shows that death will have a strong hold on them. My trailer lacks colour and this is a weakness as it doesn't show much of the symbolic codes of colour, however, the girl who is wearing the lighter colour will be seen as pure and innocent. In the trailer of the scream, there i

Representation means the way something is portrayed and put across. In terms of horror films representation is conveyed through characters and themes Representation is important in horror films because it is how we link something to another. E.g. A knife is represented as phallic object as it is sharp and it is able to penetrate things, this is where male power comes into play. Also we have been classically conditioned to associate something with something else and that association gets maintained through reinforcement that we see in the horror films The representation theories I will be discussing today are the Male Gaze Theory, Final Girl,Religion & Sexuality and Zombies. The male gaze theory by Laura Mulvey is about the way women are perceived from a misogynistic point of view. The woman's body tends to be sexualised and we see this by the camera angles and shots. the camera tends to focus on the woman's assets e.g. breasts,bum,legs etc, this way this is how the man wo