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Basic Media & Film Terms

Quiz by Tess lewis

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24 questions
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  • Q1
    viewers, listeners, consumers and readers of a media text.
    Audience
    30s
  • Q2
    a sign or convention through which the media communicates meaning to us because we have learned to read it.
    Code
    30s
  • Q3
    the secondary meaning that a sign carries in addition to it's everyday meaning.
    Connotation
    30s
  • Q4
    purchaser, listener, viewer or reader of media products.
    Consumer
    30s
  • Q5
    time, place or mindset in which we consume media products.
    Context
    30s
  • Q6
    the everyday or common sense meaning of a sign.
    Denotation
    30s
  • Q7
    the type or category of a media text.
    Genre
    30s
  • Q8
    a visual representation of something.
    Image
    30s
  • Q9
    the means by which the media communicates to us and the forms and conventions by which it does so.
    Media language
    30s
  • Q10
    a text that has been designed to be consumed by an audience. E.G a film, radio show, newspaper etc.
    Media product
    30s
  • Q11
    see above. N.B Text usually means a piece of writing
    Media text
    30s
  • Q12
    putting together of visual images to form a sequence.
    Montage
    30s
  • Q13
    computer technology that allows text, sound, graphic and video images to be combined into one programme.
    Multi-media
    30s
  • Q14
    a way of describing the conventions or elements that an audience has come to expect to be included in a story.
    Narrative code
    30s
  • Q15
    factors that influence whether a story will be picked for coverage.
    News values
    30s

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