Sunday, 14 November 2010

Code and Conventions in Media

The General rule of Codes and Conventions defines it's self as being guidelines for a successful, well structured media product. For example the main sequence that is followed in a soap opera are the following: Title sequence > Video Sequence > Cliffhanger > Credits

Although every media product follows these guidelines, they differ from each other with each individual product, for example the sequence of a magazine will differ from a film production sequence in a way that the guidelines would be shown as Header > Sub Heading > Simple Text > Images > Annotations > Footer - But the same type of guidelines will be followed so that a strong structure can be created.

The Codes and Conventions structure applies to almost every media product, including Interactive media such as flash based animations, websites and advertisements but is not always needed.

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