Codes are systems of signs or symbols used to communicate meaning, while conventions are the commonly accepted meanings created by those codes. Some examples of codes and their related conventions include a red traffic light meaning stop, a heart meaning love, and tears meaning sadness. The abbreviation "lol" is a code that by convention means "laugh out loud." Codes and conventions are culturally specific and depend on context, such as a heart in a medical book referring to anatomy versus a heart in a romance novel referring to love. Technical and symbolic codes also help establish conventions in film.

1. Codes and Conventions

2. Code (What is it?): Convention (What does it mean?):

3. Code (What is it?): Red traffic lightConvention (What does it mean?): Stop

4. Codes and Conventions: Codes are a system of signs or symbols which are used to communicate meaning. Conventions are thecommonly accepted meaning created by the codes.

5. Code (What is it?):Convention (what does it mean?):

6. Code: HeartConvention: Love

7. Code: Convention:

8. Code: TearsConvention: This person sad and crying

9. Code: Convention:

10. Code: Light bulbConvention:The person has an idea.

11. LOLCode: Convention:

12. LOLCode: The abbreviation ‘lol’ Convention: Laugh out loud, what you said/did was finny.

13. Codes and conventions are culturally specific.In the English language it is a convention to read from left to right, however in Arabic it is a convention to read right to left.

14. In different cultures colour (which is the code) represent different meanings (which is the convention). Codes and conventions are specific to their context. - If a medical book refers to the heart (code) it is suggesting a piece of anatomy and it means a human heart (convention). On the other hand if a romance novel refers to the heart (code) it will be referring to emotions of love (convention). It is here that we can understand the importance of codes and conventions in Genre!