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Media Flashcards

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What’s Stuart Halls theory?

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Encoding and decoding, audience’s life affects how they interpret messages encoded within the show

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What’s Levi Strauss’ theory?

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Theory of binary opposites, all media texts are constructed around them

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What’s Propp’s theory?

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Character function, each character in the narrative plays a set role to keep the narrative moving

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What’s Barthes’ theory

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Action and enigma codes. Action codes propel the narrative, enigma codes slow the pace and force the audience to think

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What’s Katz’ theory

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Audience uses and gratification, audience use media to gain something: entertainment, information, escapism, identification, social interaction

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What’s a media text

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A product that has been made by an institution

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What’s a media institution

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Company that produces the media text

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What are the three different types of media text

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Audio, audio visual, visual

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What’s construction?

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The process where images, words and sounds are carefully selected to create Media texts

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What’s ubiquitous mean

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Something that is everywhere

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What’s hyper masculine framing

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A hard, vertical shot with many lines

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What are high production values

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A shot that is very visually impressive, looks expensive

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What’s a polysemic text

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Text that can be interpreted in many different ways

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What’s unity of text

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A link in the text that has meaning and links everything together

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What’s antithesis

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One thing that is the direct opposite of something else

Eg the antithesis between Eliot and Alice’s upbringing

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What’s patriarchal

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A system of power in which men are favoured

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What’s composition

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The overall look of something

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What’s star lighting

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Lighting that makes someone look important

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What’s hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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What’s semiotics

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The study of signs. A way of analysing any media text to uncover the ways it creates meaning for its target audience. Looks at signs, codes, denotations and connotations

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What’s verisimilitude

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The level of realism

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What’s a sound bridge

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Non diegetic sound (music) connecting shots/scenes by continuing between them

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What’s synchronous sound

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Music linking to what we see on the screen

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What’s Todorovs theory

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The classic linear model of how a narrative should be structured
1 equilibrium, all is in order
2 disruption, of the ordered state by an event
3 recognition, that the disruption has taken place
4 an attempt to repair, the damage of the disruption
5 new equilibrium, different from when the story begins

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What’s a sub genre, what’s a hybrid

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Subgenres are a category within a genre

Hybrids are crossovers or two or more genres

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What’s iconography

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Key symbolism and its effects

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What’s nuanced mean

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Something is complex (characters characterised like a real person)

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What does it mean if two things are juxtaposed

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Two opposites out together

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What does immersive mean

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Audience feel as if they’re there

30
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Give three examples of shot transition types

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Shot reverse shots
Cross cutting
Fade in/fade out (not commonly used unless to show passing of time)
Ellipsis
Dissolve
Long talk (most realistic)
Short take
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What are the two types of sound in serial tv drama

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Diegetic sound: natural sound actually happening, creates realism. Captured at time of filming
Non diegetic sound: sound added in post production, additional sound. May include music, sound effects and voice over

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What’s a diegesis

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The world of the film

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What’s dialogue and what’s voice over

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Dialogue: human voice talking, drives the narrative

Voice over: narrator, gives overview of the narrative

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What are the three main types of lighting

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Low key, casts shadows
High key, used in studios, removes most shadows. Expensive.
Realist lighting, realistic

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What are the types of narrative structure

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Linear and non linear.
Open and closed endings/structures (open = storyline not resolved or ending is ambiguous)
Multi stranded structure (tells multiple stories, focuses on many characters)

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What’s a narrative arc

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Runs above all the sub plots, and are the main focus of the show

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What’s a non linear structure

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Complex storyline, not naturalistic, no continuity in time

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What’s a closed structure

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Storyline has an ending and is resolved, the case if episode has a self contained storyline

39
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Describe the demographic professional scale

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A = upmarket, high earning individuals
B=professionals, earn above average wage
C(123)=semi professional, earn around average wage
D=unprofessional, working with low earnings
E=students and unemployed

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What’s a demographic, what’s a psychographic

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Demographic = general profile, eg ‘a C2,3 and B audience’
Psychographic = individual profile, eg ‘my show will appeal specifically to those interested in technology and the dark side of the internet’
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What’s mainstreamer

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Like things with broad appeal. Mainstream texts are conventional, sometimes cliche, simple and formulaic and don’t deal with hard topics
TV dramas are not likely to target individualists

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What are the two types of marketing

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Above the line/direct marketing = payed for

Below the line/indirect marketing= not payed for

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What’s synergy

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Two companies working together

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What’s hyperreality

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When a text blurs the line between reality and fiction

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What’s convergent media

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Media coming together on one platform, eg ‘click through convergent links to social media pages’

Eg when you can access a text on multi platforms, this is ‘convergence of the text’

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What’s curation what’s creation

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Curation = gathering already existing material
Creation = making new material
47
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What’s digital marketing

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Marketing using digital technologies

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What’s mise en scène

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What is placed within the frame

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What are institutional factors

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The ‘background’ of the production

50
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What does filmic mean

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It looks like a film

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What’s asynchronous narrative

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The narrative is out of synch. Could still be linear, but uses flashbacks etc

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