Textual Analysis Task - Dear John




Visual Codes
Both the male and female characters within this clip are wearing casual clothes. This gives the sense that they would fall onto the social economical model at around a C2. At the start of this clip the body language used by both characters suggests love. The facial expressions used by the female character suggests happiness, but the audience then realizes she is in fact just putting on a brave face and is actually upset. In the middle of the clip the characters body language and facial expressions suggests happiness and enjoyment. This is because they are both smiling and laughing. However, when the female character, thought to be the males characters girlfriend, drives away in her car the male characters body language and facial expression suggests sadness. This is because he is looking at the floor with his hands in his pocket, he isn't smiling. The female characters  body language and facial expression also suggests sadness as her eyes tear up and she looks back at the male subject. Furthermore, when the male character gets on the bus and drives away, the older male character, thought to be his father, also displays sadness through his body language. He does this by also putting his hands in his pockets and looking down, avoiding eye contact with his son as he's driving away. The younger male character shows sadness through his facial expression from then on by not smiling or looking joyful. No graphis are used in this clip.

Technical Codes
The clip starts with a long, wide shot. This type of shot is used often throughout this clip to show the whole scene. It then goes on to use a mid-shot which is also used often to show both characters emotion. Extreme long shots are also used when the female character drives away in the car and the male character gets on the bus. This shots are used as they're more dramatic. A close up shot is also used during this clip when the female character drives away to show emotion and make the audience feel emphatic. The camera is still at first but then goes on to follow the characters. Each scene skips from one to another, no animation is used. 

Audio Codes
Digetic sound is used at the beginning of the clip as the characters are talking to one another. From then on the rest of the audio used in this clip is non-digetic as the editors placed it over the clip after they had filmed it. During this clip a voice over is used as the female character is reading a letter she had wrote to the male character. This is non-digetic audio. Another form of non-digetic audio used within this clip is music which is used whilst the female character reads the letter.