Categories Flashcards
1
Q
- One method of providing info using a particular type of technology to produce it
- Press, television, film, radio etc.
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Medium
2
Q
- Specific type of product within a median
- press: newspapers, magazines, comics
- TV: serial, light entertainment
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Form
3
Q
- Type of specialism into which the product fits
- Soap opera: Eastenders, Hollyoakes
- Action movie: Indiana Jones
- Science Fiction: Star Wars
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Genre
4
Q
- Mood or atmosphere
- Comic, serious etc
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Tone
5
Q
Surrealism, conventionalism etc.
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Style
6
Q
A famous celebrity (usually) who is used as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to promote a movie in trailers or posters
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Star
7
Q
Film director with a particular and unique style
- Quentin Tarantino
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Auteur
8
Q
Why has this media text been created?
-To inform, to educate, to persuade, to entertain, for profit etc.
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Purpose
9
Q
-Helps identify media texts more easily
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Categorising
