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Technical, Verbal And Symbolic Codes In Film
A narrative is the way in which a story, or sequence of events, is put together. All media texts have some sort of narrative, in things such as a pictures to a sports report and a feature film. A narrative is not the story itself but rather the telling of the story through technical, verbal and symbolic codes. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a film by using camera angles, framing, typography, sounds, design, editing etc .verbal codes is everything that has to do with language, it could be either written or spoken.symbolic codes are hints that could be decoded on a connotational level.everything you see in a film could reference to something.
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