Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Literary Genre
• Music Genre
• Film/Movie Genre
• Art Genre
Types of Genre
Adventure usually presents danger or gives the
audience a sense of excitement.
e.g. Star Wars, Apollo 13
- Greed is the
THEM message
root of all
evil.
- Beauty is in
E (indirect) the eye of the
beholder.
TOPI
- Weakness
- Injustice
subject - Unrequited
(direct) Love
- Racism
LET’S TRY!
GENRE? THEME? TOPIC?
GENRE? THEME? TOPIC?
CODES
CODES
- systems of signs, put
together (usually in a
sequence) to create meaning
and connotations
- can be technical, symbolic,
or written https://media.codes/media-codes-and-conventions-c03423c06aa8
TECHNICAL CODES
This is all the ways in
which equipment is used to
tell the story in a media text.
https://media.codes/media-codes-and-conventions-c03423c06aa8
Symbolic Technical
Writt
en
CONVENTIONS
CONVENTIONS
- are accepted ways of
using media codes
- what one expects to
see in a certain genre
https://media.codes/media-codes-and-conventions-c03423c06aa8
FORM CONVENTIONS
-certain ways we expect types of
media codes to be arranged
http://media-studies.tki.org.nz/Teaching-media-studies/Media-concepts/Codes-and-
conventions
https://ucsd.libguides.com/CAT1/sources
http://guides.library.uwm.edu/infolit/module2
http://libguides.merrimack.edu/research_help/Sources
http://www.widener.edu/about/campus_resources/wolfgram_library/documents/1_4_
Types%20of%20Sources.pdf
https://www.library.illinois.edu/hpnl/tutorials/
primary-sources/
https://www.slideshare.net/miatignor/types-of-sources-28466319
https://www.pcc.edu/library/scripts/know-
your-sources/index.html
http://unesco.mil-for-teachers.unaoc.org/modules/module-4/
http://www.scriptmag.com/features/craft-
features/what-is-story-story-types-plot-types-
themes-genres
https://media.codes/media-codes-and-
conventions-c03423c06aa8
https://www.academia.edu/5185081/Codes_a
nd_conventions_in_Media