Codes and Conventions

Codes and Conventions

The girl with the dragon tattoo

 

Sound- music, intense, rock, horror, fast, thriller, drama, interesting, urban
Titles- dark,
Images- grey, neutral, silver, black, different, CGI, bound, restriction, pain, eroticised, sexual, liquid

 Seven

 

 

Sound- conversation, swearing, rain, clock-ticking, steady beat, noises, quiet (beginning), calm, lonely, equilibrium, diegetic sound
Titles- Standout, dark background, psychopathic, horror, crime, font, symbols, signs, death, murder, obsession
Images- city, dark, close-ups , wash with grey, sterile

Train Spotting

Sound- Voice-over, steady beat, song, swearing, implies lack of formal education, anger, funny, humour, youth, casual, rebellion
Titles- realistic, colours, British
Images- drugs, baby, junkies, movement, low angle >feet, rebellious, crime, innocence of a child, blatant, realistic, vensimilitude, heroin, football, silly clothes, genre-comedy, dram

Saturday night fever

 

 

 
 

Sound- beeps, train, music, non-diegetic sound and music, swearing, rebellion, humour, disco, music

Titles- red titles: thinks he’s big, hardware store, member of the community, well known, comedy, drama
Images- city, aerial shot, Brooklyn Bridge, low angle shot, eating, sloppy, shiny shoes, high maintenance, strutting, success, dreams, rich, cool, young, city that never sleeps, urban