MIL Flashcards
objects, setting ,body language, and actions. Music can be classified as both technical and symbolic.
2) Symbolic Codes
literal aspect of information
1) Denotation
- applied to the technical area (e.g., length of television series, film, or music videos).
1) Technical Convention -
People are not passive individuals who accept information anymore, but active people who can create their own interpretations and meanings of media information particularly in areas:
Media Audiences
- a practice or technique that is widely used in a field (Croteau and Hoynes, 2018). A habit or already long accepted way of doing things. E.g., Filipino anchors report with louder, non-monotonous voice. Western counterparts who report news mildly.
Convention
raw sounds in an audio-video materials (e.g., voices)
1) Diegetic sounds
used to represent an information in a specific manner that oftentimes do not represent reality.
Codes and conventions
a method, consisting of signs and symbols, used by information sources to convey meaning to their audiences.
Media Language
The present media audience is interpretive. When producers create media information, audience develop it through their own understanding.
1) Interpretation
sounds that have been added in the post-production stage of the material (e.g., sound effects)
2) Non-diegetic sounds
viewers are spoon-fed with concrete details from which their imagination could not be exercised.
2) Television, Video streams, or Films
There are two common types of codes:
1) Technical Codes
2) Symbolic Codes
The greatest indicator of media audience’s activeness is collective political action. How the Filipinos responded to the call of Jaime Cardinal Sin in 1986 that led to the first People Power Revolution in the country against the Marcos dictatorship; to the fight for the sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea; to the announcements that were made via social media; and many others are clear manifestations that media audience in the Philippines are not just active socially, but also
politically.
3) Collective Political Action
The definition ——–’ is indefinite, for there can never be a real world,
real