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Barthes Codes
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Meaning
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Examples in Jeepers Creepers
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Enigma/Hermeutic
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Creates a mystery within a text.
· Makes the audiences
want to know more.
· If an Enigma
ends unanswered it can frustrate the audience and makes them think deeply
about the film.
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· All the crows
land on one scarecrow as if they chose that one in particular.
· Close-up of a
dog getting up, running towards the field and barking growling at something.
The audience wants to know what the dog is barking at.
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Proairetic/Action
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Sequential elements of action.
· Adds suspense
to the text
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· Scarecrows get
put up in tall corn/maize field.
· The crows land
on one scarecrow.
· The dog barks
towards the field.
· Crows fly off
and non-diegetic music starts.
· Kid walks
towards the scarecrow thinking it’s odd.
· The dog barks
again.
· The scarecrows
foot moves.
· Kid pauses
before turning and running away.
· Scarecrow jumps
and flies after the boy.
· The scarecrow
lands on the boy.
· Hear screams as
the camera pans across the crops.
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Semantic
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· Creates
additional meanings.
· Called ‘Semes’.
· Uses the extra
layers of meanings.
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· Scarecrows are
associated with Halloween so they are seen as scary, spooky and haunted.
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Symbolic
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· Exercises
opposites showing contrast and greater meaning, creating tension, drama and
character development.
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· Small young boy
and a dirty old scarecrow are very different.
· Boy murmurs
that the scarecrows aren’t working anyway and then the crows all fly away as
they’re scared.
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Referential
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· Refers to
anything that refers to an external body of knowledge.
· Usually
scientific, historical or cultural, e.g. sci-fi films will use some
scientific knowledge.
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· It shows
cultural knowledge as they used to put scarecrows in fields in the old times
which shows that they have thought about what they should include in the
film.
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Thursday, 7 January 2016
Barthes Code
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