Codes:
they are systems which create meaning both symbolic and technical, Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used in media, such as camera usage in a film, the way in which it is edited and how sound is used. Symbolic codes are usually seen through miss-en-scene. such as a character's actions show you the characters feelings and emotions, a character's costume can show what type of person they are such as how much flesh is on show, props have suggestions or connotations which can be assumed by an audience. Some codes fit both categories – music for example, is both technical and symbolic.
Conventions:
Conventions are the ways in which doing something. general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.
common conventions in horror films are, secluded locations- where they are miles away from any help or anyone to hear their scream of danger, safety always being really close for the victim- such as them tripping at the last hurdle of getting to a safe area and a vehicle, a small group or two people- often a boy and girl which are separated from each other giving a strong sense of danger, a person often quite young always dies within the first five starting minutes of the film, the victim falls over all of a sudden and then struggles and does not return to their feet to evade the killer, no signal- the victim cannot seem to get connection to their phones or radios.
codes and conventions:
commonly used together in any study of genre – it is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work, without saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.
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