Quiz 12 Flashcards
Entertainment must contain a blend of _____ and ____ elements
Reality and Fantasy
Why do people wish to expose themselves to entertainment messages?
Encounter experiences we can easily understand
Take us out of our everyday routines.
Two reasons why people are motivated to get certain messages in media rather than real life
Impossible to get the messages in real life
Costs of getting messages are far lower
Entertainment messages that present a ___________ are attractive to audiences because they are presented as being easy to process
High degree of reality
Programmers intuitively know that to attract audiences they must take their audience’s sense of reality and…..
Tweak it a bit to make it seem more interesting
Producers of fiction know that the essence of their challenge is to tell stories that are:
Bigger than life
Why do researchers look for patterns across media messages?
So they can monitor how much fantasy is being presented
To document patterns of elements across a media message
Content Analysis
Characters typically portrayed on TV are
Two Dimensional stereotypes
Provides us with a set of expectations that we can access quickly as we encounter people and events
Stereotypes
Sex, homosexuality, violence, and other controversial topics are used by entertainment media in order to:
Avoid being dull
What are the 5 indicators of deceptive health
- ) Most characters appear healthy/fit
- ) Few characters suffer any harm
- ) Normal health maladies rarely shown
- ) Dangerous mental health stereotypes
- ) Overrepresented doctors
Guides that tell storytellers what elements are available to put into stories and how those elements should be assembled
Story formulas
3 guidelines for storytelling
- ) Must generate conflict
- ) Told through POV of a character
- ) Trigger emotions in audience
Subgenre of comedy where humor arises from character quirks that illuminate the craziness of everyday situations
Character comedy or comedy of manners
Comedy where certain characters have power over other characters and exercise that power in humorous ways
Put-down Comedy
Drama where characters are perceived as noble but then bad things happen due to a fatal flaw or fate
Tragedy
Drama where an important element of the plot is missing. A crime usually occurs and the focal character must uncover information
Mystery
Drama presented as a good and evil fight in an ever-deepening conflict. Characters are static and don’t change; the plot relies on fast-paced action.
Action/horror
TV network programmers are usually very _____ with risk
Conservative
