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Hermeneutic Codes  The Hermeneutic code is the narrative codes which play a part of a story which isn’t explained fully, it’s these codes which create narrative enigmas. Some say detective style enigma as the audience go through the whole film still wondering if the narrative enigma which came up at the start of the film will be explained.  Roland Barthes was a great theorist as he was the one who came up with the 5 major  codes. He always talked about how the interest of the audience can be influenced by capturing a shot which suggest that the character is being followed or watched. In the film that my group created we tried to place a partial answer, right at the end the audience are draw to the conclusion that the reason so many deaths happen is due to the creature lurking inside the school in this case Cannibal.
Examples from my film All of these images are from the film Cannibal High and as you can see all of them would get the audience thinking about what is the reason behind that or why is that happening.
In my view the example of a Partial Answer. Definition for Partial Answer is ‘revealing parts of the final truth just to build tension for the audience’.  The fact that there’s a creature/human the audience have reason to believe that the cause of so many deaths are due to this thing in the school. At the start when the subheading said that 362 death are unexplainable it’s because of what this thing is perceived to be, which makes the audience believe that they’ve solved the mystery.

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Hermeneutic codes

  • 1. Hermeneutic Codes The Hermeneutic code is the narrative codes which play a part of a story which isn’t explained fully, it’s these codes which create narrative enigmas. Some say detective style enigma as the audience go through the whole film still wondering if the narrative enigma which came up at the start of the film will be explained. Roland Barthes was a great theorist as he was the one who came up with the 5 major codes. He always talked about how the interest of the audience can be influenced by capturing a shot which suggest that the character is being followed or watched. In the film that my group created we tried to place a partial answer, right at the end the audience are draw to the conclusion that the reason so many deaths happen is due to the creature lurking inside the school in this case Cannibal.
  • 2. Examples from my film All of these images are from the film Cannibal High and as you can see all of them would get the audience thinking about what is the reason behind that or why is that happening.
  • 3. In my view the example of a Partial Answer. Definition for Partial Answer is ‘revealing parts of the final truth just to build tension for the audience’. The fact that there’s a creature/human the audience have reason to believe that the cause of so many deaths are due to this thing in the school. At the start when the subheading said that 362 death are unexplainable it’s because of what this thing is perceived to be, which makes the audience believe that they’ve solved the mystery.