Codes and Conventions

Conventions are thing in a genre that you expect to see.

Codes are how certain things can make the audience feel/think.

Western

Conventions -

Guns

Cowboys

Tumbleweed

Saloon

Sheriff

Horses

Ten Gallon Hat

Codes -

The camera that looks all the way down the town to see one person (cowboy) standing at the end this shows the audience that the place is lonely.

The rolling tumbleweed and sand clouds also show the audience that it is an empty land.

Horror

Conventions -

Blood

Gore

Knives

Masks
Screaming Girls

Groups of teens

Codes -

the use of darkness usually builds suspence, most of the time you will hear footsteps in the dark and then see mabye only the weapon.

Sci-Fi

Conventions -

Aliens

Space

Rockets

Lasers

Unknown worlds

unexpected heroes

Codes -

The characters usually start out as 'ordinary' people and we get attatched to the characters, this makes the audience more interested in the film because they dont want to see there favorite killed/lost.