Roland Bartes: five codes of semiotics
The Hermetic Code, (the voice of truth): The way the story avoids telling the direct truth or facts to add clues/ create mystery The Enigma Code, (Empirical code): The way tension is built and leaving the audience in suspense, e.g: cliffhangers Semantic Code, (Voice of the person): Any element in the text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of which the story suggests. The Symbolic Code, (The voice of the symbols): Similar to the semantic code,however it focuses on a wider range, organising them into different sets of meaning, typically done with antithesis where new meaning arise out of conflict and opposing ideas The Cultural Code, (The voice of science): looking at the audiences cultural knowledge and ideology, this gives more context and meaning to the text, it references how we think of the world, and how we think it works.
