Lesson 1.3 Flashcards
are the accepted ways of using media codes.
Media Convention
3 Types of Convention
Form
Story
Genre
are the expected ways on how media codes are arranged.
Form Conventions
are common narrative structures and understandings in story telling media products like cause and effect, character construction and point of view
Story Conventions
Morning to night, beginning to end, from
being a child to being adult.
Regular Plot
Meaning in the middle of things: the movie started with a scene from the middle of the story
En Media Res
Back to the past: rewind a scene or tell a story from before
Flashback
hanging ending:
cliff hanger
shows future scene which the characters
have planned
flash forward
shows a future scene which might happen
foreshadowing
are the common use of tropes, characters, settings or themes in a particular type of medium.
genre conventions
They can be formal or thematic.
genre conventions