Quarter 1 Module 7: Media and Information Languag Flashcards
The group of consumers for whom a media message was constructed as well as anyone else who is exposed to the message.
Audience
Are systems of signs, which create meaning
Codes
Refers to a standard or norm that acts as a rule governing behaviour.
Convention
A particular type or category of literature and art.
Genre
Pertains to the technical and symbolic ingredients or codes and conventions that media and information professionals may select and use in an effort to communicate ideas, information and knowledge.
Language
Codes, conventions, formats, symbols and narrative structures
that indicate the meaning of media messages to an audience.
Media Languages
The information sent from a source to a receiver.
Messages
Libraries, archives, museums, internet and other relevant
information providers.
Other stakeholders
People engaged in the process of creating and putting together media content to make a finished media product.
Producers
Show what is beneath the surface of what we see.
Symbolic Codes
Ways in which equipment is used to tell the story.
Technical Codes
Use of language style and textual layout (headlines, captions, speech bubbles, language style, etc.)
Written Codes
title of story in large type
HEADLINES
the name of a book, film…
TITLES
appear below an image
CAPTIONS
Used in comics, cartoons…
SPEECH BUBBLES
