1b - Narrative

1b. Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to the concept of narrative.

Roland Barthes narrative codes.

The Enigma code is a question within the narrative which must be answered

The Action code is an event in the narrative which means a further action will occur.
 
These first codes are reliant on ‘time’, they only work if you read a book or view a film temporally, i.e. from beginning to end. 

The next three codes tend to work "outside the constraints of time" and are, therefore, more properly reversible, which is to say that there is no necessary reason to read the instances of these codes in chronological order to make sense of them in the narrative.
 
The cultural code is an element within a narrative which can only be decoded if you are a member of the culture responsible for creating the text

The symbolic code is an element within a narrative which represents a political, moral or symbolic point

The semantic code is an element of a text which has both a literal meaning and a series of associated meanings (e.g. a drum kit is a drum kit, however it has connotations of rock music)


Music video theory

Star Image
Amplification
Illustration
Disjunture.