Enigma Code: generates and controls what information a viewer is aware of within a narrative and holds their interest throughout the production. Common ideas include problems or mysteries which must be solved.
Action Code: events which occur that the viewer immediately can identify as being significant to the development of the narrative, e.g. a crime.
These two ideas come from Roland Barthes, who explains how these narrative codes have the power to make the audience want to keep watching or reading a story. He also discusses 'hermeneutic' and 'proairetic' codes, which are ways of creating suspense in narratives, adding to audience pleasure and further making them want to keep watching.
Hermeneutic Code: refers to elements of a plot that raise questions from the audience of part of a text.
Proairetic Code: refers to actions in a plot which lead to other actions.
In my production of a music video, I think we will be using mainly 'action' and 'proairetic' codes. The proairetic code will refer to the drinking and money obsessed lifestyle that the character and song relate too. The action code will also relate the characters actions to the lyrics of the song
