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Media Representation Flashcards

1
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MUSCLE

A 
Mise en scene 
sound 
camerawork 
lighting 
editing
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Mise en scene

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Everything within the frame

Settings, costumes, props, colours, performance and actors

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Sound

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diegetic - sound within the world of the film

non-diegetic - sound of the world of the film

internal diegetic - subjective sound, inside a character’s head

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Camerawork

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C Composition (or shots) - LS, MS, CU

Long shot
Medium shot
Close up

A Angles - high, low, canted

M Movement - Tracking and Panning

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5
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Lighting

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High key - bright

Low key - dark

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Editing

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creative and techinical part
involves selecting scenes to be shown and putting them together

pace - fast or slow

rhythm - narrative flow

transitions - type of cuts used to move from one scene to the next

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Semiotics

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study of signs

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Ferninand de Saussure

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sign - signifier/signified

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Sign

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anything conveying meaning

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Signifier

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form of a sign

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Signified

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concept of an object that represented

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12
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Charles Sanders Peirce

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interpretant
signifier
signified
recognised the role of the audience in intepreting the sign

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Interpretant

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sense the audience makes of the sign

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Denotation

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literal meaning of a sign

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Connotation

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agreed meaning attached to a sign which can be emotional, cultural or symbolic

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Mediation

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the decisions the producer makes for a piece of media like their experiences and their biases
choices they makes affects the meaning

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Contructionist View (Re-presenting) Stuart Hall

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Stuart Hall acknowledges mediation affects how people see things in the world

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Audience Positioning

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where they are set in the narrative

19
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Contra Puntal

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sound and image are in conflict

20
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ELS

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Establishing shot

21
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Verismilitude

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the appearance of being true or real

22
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Anchorage

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something that anchors the meaning

23
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Laura Mulvey (the male gaze)

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Suggests that the typical audience is male and female characters are meant to be objects in films

look of the camera: invisible
look of the audience: invisible
look between the characters: visible

24
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Scopophilia

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pleasure from watching

25
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Richard Dyer (stereotypes and power)

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media reinforces stereotypes
way of imposing order on diversity
exaggerates differences
can construct the audience’s perceptions of the world
indentities constructed and communicated via stereotypes
convey information to the audience

26
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Mode of address

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Direct - talking about you

Indirect - not talking about you

27
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Oppositional gaze

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type of looking that involves the political rebellion and resistance against the black repression of a black person’s right to look

black women are underrepresented and are also not allowed to look

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Polysemic

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many meanings

29
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desensitisation

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becoming less effected by issues

30
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PNO (Hall)

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Preferred
Negotiated
Oppositional

31
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Hypodermic needle model

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Passive audiences believe the ideologies presented in the media

32
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active audience

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an active audience questions the messages communicared by the product and the producer

33
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passive audience

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a passive audience accepts the messages communicated by the product and the producer

34
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intertextuality

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one media text references another

35
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CEL

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circular
episodic
linear

36
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Circular

A

when the narrative starts at the end

37
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Episodic

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when a narrative is broken into events or narrative pieces

38
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Linear

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when a narrative is told in the order in which events happen

39
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Tzvetan Todorov

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theorist

40
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Propp

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theorist who identified 8 character roles

41
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8 roles

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villain 
hero 
donor 
helper
princess
princess's father 
dispatcher 
false hero
42
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Restricted Narrative

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audience knows as much as the characters do

43
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Omniscient Narrative

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audience knows more than character

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