Barthes applies 'codes' to his theory. Question codes - enigmas to engage the audience. Semic - Image connotation, Action - how much action has been chose to show and referential - applies to knowledge (based on true events etc. e.g.; Jackie).
He claims texts are like a ball of threads and that they need untangling to discover a wide variety of meanings and codes and that the different codes can create different viewpoints
Barthes has 5 codes in his theory
-Enigma
How the story avoids exposing itself, it does this by dropping small little clues to create the mystery of the given text and engage the audience.
-Action
How the tension is built up asking questions to the audience.
-Semantic
Can be anything, small little clues that can give off certain meanings depending on how the audience connotes the object by the way the story presents it.
-Symbolic
Similar to Semantic, more depth paid attention to though, particularly mise-en-scene, where new meanings are made through opposing and conflict ideas.
-Referential
Looks at the wider knowledge - the way the audience interprets morality and ideology etc.
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