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Narrative refers to how a story is constructed and relayed to an audience through a media text. There are various codes that make up a narrative including the hermeneutic code which avoids revealing all the facts to create mystery, the enigma code which builds tension and leaves the audience guessing, and the semantic and symbolic codes which suggest additional meanings and symbolism. Famous theorist Roland Barthes identified five main codes that shape narrative: the hermeneutic code, the enigma code, the semantic code, the symbolic code, and the cultural code, which references the audience's cultural knowledge.
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- 2. What is narrative? In Media Studies narrative is how the story of a media text is constructed and how it relays its information to an audience. To analyse how a narrative is constructed you need to look at how it is put together using audio codes, visual codes, structure and the characters. For example a television news programme like BBC News at Ten will have the same narrative construction each evening, although the content of the news stories will be different.
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