Task 8: Evaluate the adverts
Learning outcome 3(U20): Be able to produce the planned media components M3(U20): Explain how the created media components comply with the codes and conventions of the media sector - How the components have utilised understanding of research undertaken on real media products(U20:M3) Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories, technical and symbolic. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film. Symbolic codes show what is behind of the scenes of what we see. Conventions is how things are commonly done in a media sector, this can be habits or long accepted ways of doing these things. Through repeated experience the audience can familiarise themselves with these conventions, there for these conventions have almost turned into what the audience expect to see. It is a convention of the horror genre that side and back lighting is use...