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GCSE Media
22 cards·by trentasaurus123
Media Language
How the media through their forms, codes and conventions communicate meaning
Media Audience
How media forms target a certain audience
Media Representations
How the media portray certain events, issues, individuals and social groups
Niche Audience
a very small target audience
Direct Address
the model/actor looking directly at the audience
Typography
the style, colour, size, font of text
Target audience
Who the media product is made for
Connotations
hidden meaning
Denotations
the actual meaning
Semiotic Analysis
the study of signs and symbols
Mise-en-scene
everything you can see
Intertextuality
relationships between different media texts
Stereotype
a widely accepted idea of something
CGI
computer generated images
BAME Audience
British Black Asian and Minority Ethnic audience
Hall's Reception theory
the message of all media texts will be interpreted differently as each member of the audience
experiences different moments , beliefs ect
Propps Character theory
suggests that there are repeated character types (archetypes) in every media product to aid
the audiences understanding
Koch Tribe theory
suggests that as humans we want to be apart of a tribe
Gauntlets identity theory
identity isn't fixed and they are fluid
Needle Time
the designated time a radio can play music
Blockbuster
a very large film or media product of major success
Anchorage
text that gives the main image meaning