Textual Analysis

Visual Codes

• Clothing and physical appearance

• Gesture and body language

• Facial Expressions

• Settings

• Use of colour

• Any use of graphics

• Denotation/Conotation

• 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 and non diegetic

• Any ambient noise

• Voice-over

• Music