Star Trek: Into Darkness

Visual Codes:

Star Trek: Into Darkness is a Sci-fi movie and the expected clothing and appearence would obviously be 'space' related. The crew members on the starship Enterprise wear different coloured shirts and different styled badges to represent what area they in. Yellow means you are part of the command, Captain Kirk is the captain and is part of this area. Blue means you are either within medicine or science, you can tell the difference by the badges they wear. And finally, red means that you are part of the engineering facilities. These are iconic to the franchise itself and have been very recognisable over the years it has existed. Khan, however, is spotted around wearing a black trench coat. This suggests to the audience that he's possibly the main villian due to the fact that trench coats are very suspicious looking when worn.  The setting of this film is set within space, on a distant planet or in futuristic Earth. The setting fits very well within the film's genre as space is normally a main sci-fi setting. The use of colour is very good. When the characters are on different planets, they use a wide range of colours to represent how different the planets are from eachother and to bring out a sense of beauty. During the course of both the film and trailer, the film makers have added in an great amount of Lense Flares. This is used to create effect to the film and reflect the fact that they are mainly based in space.

Technical Codes:

The mise-en-scene of Star Trek includes a lot of sci-fi related props. Holograms, starships, space weapons, the lot! Basically the mise-en-scene just sums up what the visual codes are but the performance of the actors are very into their roles. Zachary Quinto, for example, portrays his role as Spock very well and always keeps very serious throughout. But he also shows himself as a reliable and loyal companion to Captain James Kirk, who is played by Chris Pine. The lighting is pretty much high key throughout. Mainly on the planet that features the red trees, this brings out the beauty behind what has been created. Sometimes low key lighting has been used if the current area is a dangerous or just to make the audience slightly on edge as they want to know what is possibly lurking within the shadows.

Audio Codes:

Diegetic and non-diegetic sound are used within the course of the trailer. The diegetic sounds are mainly the dialogue that is send. We know this as it is happening within the film world itself. The non-diegetic sound is the music that has been added onto the trailer to bring effect and to make things intriging to it's audience. The music keeps the viewers interested and also helps to make the viewers watch the full thing.