Narrative- The Prestige

The Prestige-
In this task we had to watch an opening scene of the film 'The Prestige' and we was giving the task to find 4 different narrative codes which could have been symbolic, Binary opposites, typical character types found in films with hero or villain being examples, and finally whether there is any disruption in the film.
The start of the scene seemed to us as the viewer that it involved an innocent magician showing a young girl a magic trick. This soon changed to scenes of electrical equipment  that is known to be used to torment peoples minds sending electrical pulses through them, This is not as innocent as the first scene. From this you can tell the genre of the film that you may first think of it being fantasy or family drama as there are two different age ranges that could link them to being relatives.

Enigma codes in this opening scene can include:
- Who is trying to kill the magician?
- What part does the old man play?
- When was the film set in?
- Will the magician survive?

Symbolic codes:
- The Budgie in the cage
- Old fashioned/old time period Clothing of the audience
- Curtains opening
- Magic wand - Extraordianry
- Suits - important/wealthy people
- Dark - mysterious/eriee
- Electrical - Dangerous
- Curtain lifting - Surprise/suspence

Action codes
- everyone knows that one of a Magicians tricks is plunging into a locked water tank but will he escape this time?
- Electric field which could show the danger that is involved with water that can create a massive electrical shock.