Sky High Technical Codes

In the film, Sky High, an action packed, family friendly film, it uses many film codes, such as Technical, Audio, and Symbolic codes. In this particular scene in this film, they used these codes effectively to create a feeling of fear and anticipation as the scene slowly progressed. Sky High is set in a superhero school on a floating island, and Will Stronghold is the main character who is soon to find his powers, while his parents are famous superheroes.
There is a wide variety of Technical Codes that are used in this film and many others. The main technical codes that were used in this scene were camera shots and angles. In the scene right before Royal Pain is revealed, Will finds out that Gwen Grayson is bad, and it uses a low camera angle and a close of his face to show he had made a great mistake. During the Villain Reveal scene, the camera switches between Gwen Grayson giving her speech and Will Stronghold’s parents, this creates the feeling of anticipation and something is just about to happen, and when Gwen finally puts on the Royal Pain suit, it …show more content…
In the scene before the Royal Pain Reveal, Will is shocked after he encounters that Gwen is Royal Pain, the music starts off mysterious, as he slowly finds out and creates a feeling of mystery and fear, then he starts saying, “no, no no no... no.” By him saying no repeatedly, it means that he has done something wrong, and should fix what he’s done. During the Gwen Grayson speech, the music and noise are low, with a cheering crowd, meaning that everything is alright and it is a great speech until Gwen Grayson reveals herself to be Royal Pain, the music gets loud creating fear and tension and conflict between Royal Pain, and the home-comers. Royal Pain has a deep robotic voice that sounds like a villain’s