Codes:
Codes are signs which have meanings behind them and they can be in two different categories. These are technical and symbolic codes. The technical codes is the way in which equipment is used to tell a story. This can also be done by the way it is edited and the diegetic or non diegetic sound. The Symbolic codes are seen through mise-en-scene, it is what can be seen if we really look into whats behind it. This can be shown by a characters actions, it can show how they are feeling or what the character is wearing shows what type of person they are.
Conventions:
Conventions generally are certain ways of doing something. There are general conventions like the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but they are also genre specific. For example horror films have the same conventions are were two characters are in the middle of nowhere and cant escape or get help as they're in danger
This is how Codes and Conventions are used in Media Studies: They are used together in any genre. It is not enough to discuss a technical code used such as camera work and saying how it is conventionally used in a genre.
For example, the technical code of lighting is used in some way in all film genres. It is a convention of the horror genre that side and back lighting is used to create mystery and suspense.
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