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Why is a media text?

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A product that has been made by the media or ourselves that we examine as part of our study

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What is a media institution?

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The company that produces the media

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What is media?

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The media is a global constantly changing industry of information and entertainment

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What does media do?

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Media shapes our perspective of what is real

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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 is a visual media text?

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Sound and no picture or film

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What is an audio visual media text?

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Picture or film with no sound

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What is a visual media text?

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A picture or film with no sound

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What is construction?

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Construction refers to the process where images, words and sounds are selected to create Media products

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What is a visual code?

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what we see, eg people and setting

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What is audio code?

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What we hear, eg music, voices

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What is technical code?

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Things done with technology, e.g. Camera angles and lighting

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13
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What does ubiquitous mean?

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Everywhere

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What are Binary opposites?

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Two good and bad opposites

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What do codes do in the advert?

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They make the advert

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What is de-saturating?

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Taking the colour out of everything

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What is high key production values?

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When a shot looks amazing due to money being poured into it

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What is high key lighting?

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When you shoot with a stupidly large amount of light flooding in

19
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What is shot reverse shot?

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Shoot to one thing, then another, then back to the first thing

20
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What is hyper masculine framing?

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A hard, intimidating cold, vertical shot

21
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What are the two types of sound?

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Diegetic and non diegetic sound

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What is diegetic sound?

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Diegetic sound is sound the actors hear on the set

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What is non diegetic sound?

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Sound that is artificially added

24
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What is a polysemic text?

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A text that can have many different interpretations and connotations

25
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What is AIDA theory?

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The theory of why some people are influenced incredibly quickly by adverts

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What is unity of the text?

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A link in the text that has meaning, everything in the text links

27
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What is antithesis?

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When you use opposite words for effect

28
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What are conventions?

A

Typical characteristics

29
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What is the genre?

A

The type

30
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What does it mean for something to be patriarchal?

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A system of power that prioritises men

31
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What does it mean for change to be glacial?

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Change is happening incredibly slowly

32
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The also inside/other features part of a magazine is called what?

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The coverlines

33
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The name of the person on a media text is called what?

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The model text

34
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The tag line/hook text in a magazine is called what?

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The selling line

35
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The issue number/info on a magazine is called what?

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The date line

36
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What is the composition?

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The overall look of something

37
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What does star lighting do?

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Uses star lighting to make someone look like a star

38
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What’s hyperbole?

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Extreme exaggeration

39
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What is low-key lighting?

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Lighting that creates lots of shadows

40
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What does an action code do?

A

Tells us what is about to happen

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