Bad Education and the codes

Bad Education is a TV show which shows the life of a secondary school teacher and his class. It shows what they get up to not just during class but outside of the school. But mostly focus on Alfie the teacher and his hopeless love affair with another teacher. The kids try and help him with this but it mostly just focuses on his relationship with the children in the photo and other teachers, and the situations they get put in during school.

Bad Education uses visual, technical and audio codes through out the program. The genre of this TV show is a comedy. I know this because it is a relaxed atmosphere throughout the show and it also constantly tells jokes and the sketches of the show is not a stereotypical school as the teacher does not really care about the children's education and more about his life and having a good time.

The visual codes the show mainly uses is the facial expressions and the body language to show the audience what the character is reacting to the situation that they are in. Even though they are involved in a conversation which they are using words they want to react and they can only do this by using facial expressions and body language. In the opening scene of Bad Education (series 2: episode 5) it focuses a lot on Alfie's face. As the character isn't talking he has to react with his face and body. As the camera is focusing on his face he needs to show the audience how he is feeling. The effect of his face reacting to what has been said is so the audience can know how he is feeling and what he thinks about the situation that he is in.

Another visual code is what he is wearing. As you can see by what he is wearing it is not what a stereotypical teacher would wear. This could then show he does not take his job serious, which then backs up the show being a comedy. I know this because by him wearing green trousers and a cardigan shows multiple reasons of the show having a humour feel about it. One reason is his idea of him looking good with what he is wearing, so his sense of style is not well presented here. Then this could show the audience he is a comedic character and by opening with him would instantly show its a comedy.

The technical codes of the show is very varied as they don't just keep to one shot they change it constantly to keep the audience engaged with the show. In the picture the shot that has been used is a long shot which then shows the audience the full character and not just his face or upper half which they do more for body language and facial features. By using a long shot it shows what Alfie is wearing and how he is walking which then would relate to the situation he is in. 

Another technical code is the mise en scene, everything is placed there for a reason. The director has choose to have the back end of a car in the scene to show he is walking down the road and its a common street as the houses arent fancy and the car isn't expensive which shows what type a character he is. Which isn't a rich man its a average guy who works as a teacher. This then shows the audience that they can relate to characters through out more than someone who is rich and owns 10 horses. 

Bad Education uses a lot of audio codes as it uses non diegetic sounds every time the scene changes. The music then reflects on what just happened the scene before. By having the music play every time the scene changes it keeps the audience engaged and entertained by which music is played and it also notifies the audience that the scene is changing and therefore the topic/subject of the scene is to.