Project 4: Five Codes DYM

Enigma Code

• Who is the voice -over?
• How did the girl's mother die?
• What is going to happen to the girl?

Action Code

• Old man at the beginning nods 'no', makes you think something bad has happened.
• When the father takes a scalpel out of the drawer, the camera focuses on a gun, which makes us think he might use it later.
• After the father finds out that everything goes to the girls in the will, he pushes everything away and drinks a lot of alcohol, which makes us expect him to do something violent that will change the narrative
• You see the father blaming the daughter for the murder of her sister, which makes you think she will be punished rather than the actual villain.

Semiotic Code

• The father represents evil.
• The youngest girl represents innocence.
• The mother represents what is closest to the main girl and her death corresponds to that being taken away from her.

Cultural Code

• The father smiling when the mother is shown dead and the fact that he gets extremely angry and violent when he finds out about the will shows he is only iTnterested in the money and not the girls.
• We see the older girl try to escape from her abusive parent even if it means climbing outside a window as she is trying to save her sister.

Symbolic Code

• Good vs. Evil
• Right vs. Wrong
• What the audience and main chaacter know is true vs. What all the other characters think is the truth.