Week 1 - Homework
Media Products & Audiences Week 1 Homework 1. Write a detailed definition on what codes & conventions are - Codes are systems of signs that are used to communicate meaning. We can interpret this in many ways such as the way someone is feeling or the way something is being used. Conventions are the accepted ways of doing things and thing that you would expect to see in a media product. Such as when reading a magazine, you are able to identify the common features that it consists. 2. Identify the codes and conventions for the following media products including examples of each product - Radio: The codes that are associated with radio is usually speech, because this is the way the words are spoken & music as it also a code as it sets the mood and tone. The conventions that are associated with radio is the fact that there is a lot of narrative & direct speech, due to there not being any visual...