Brainstorm-First Initial Ideas

24/01/14

In today's lesson ,with Emily, we made notes from a PowerPoint presentation on Roland Barthes Enigma Code in which Emily had created.
My notes:

• Theories on films,audiences,narratives,symbolic meanings on media
• Enigma code(hidden messages/codes)
• Portrays a mystery to draw an audience in
• Suggests text
• Barthes theory of five codes are a way of grouping signifies according to the role they play in text.
• five codes are categorised as- The Hermenutic code, The Proairetic code, The Semantic code, The Symbolic code and The Cultural code.

The whole class was given homework to summaries the PowerPoint on Roland Barthes on a separate post on our blog and to create and collect some primary audience research, for example questionnaires based around our title sequences. We were then told to get into our coursework groups and brainstorm our initial ideas for our title sequence. We used STINCS(the codes and conventions of title sequences) to guide us in our brainstorm.Here's our brainstorm:

After doing our brainstorm, we spoke to Emily and decided that we didn't want our title sequence to be based around romance drama genre but romantic comedy. This is because we came up with good ideas, that can be contributed in our title sequence, that flowed much better with the romcom genre rather than the romance drama genre. I think the idea of having an opposite hybrid genre is good as it will give us a wider range of what to include in our title sequence. 

Here is a slide created for codes and conventions of romantic comedy.