coffee and tv

We studied this video in class, analysing the narrative form within the music video. We used Roland Barthes narrative codes to do this, identifying each one within the text.
The codes are:

- Enigma - represented by the aim of the milk carton and why he is going where he is going.
- Symbolic - The general threatening nature of the 'outside world'
- Cultural - The presence of the picture on the milk carton
- Action - presented through the destruction of the 'female milk carton'
- Semic - represented through the themes of coming of age and running away from home, reinforced through the milk carton 'missing person' advert and what that connotes.

These codes are relevant when planning a narrative and we will apply them to our own in order to judge and improve upon the ideas we already have. Hopefully through doing this we will be able to refine our narrative to a higher standard, allowing the meanings and themes we have already established to be presented more effectively.