Key Terms

Codes and Conventions: 

• Music to signify sense of drama or urgency 
• MS rather than close up 
• opening sequence with icons of importance such as clocks and globes
• use of props such as tables and technology 
• Formal presenters/ formal dress
• sequence of clips 
• spectacle - audience as spectators of 'large' events 
• Journalism from 'inside' the action - hand- held cameras, 
• Direct mode of address
• Enigma code - coming up 'teasers' 
• Primary definers - expert opinion 

Codes and conventions: 

• Realism and constructed reality (the expectation of the audience to believe that the constructed world is 'real' - a world within a world) <--- Blumer and Katz theory
• 'still to come' moments - the culture of anticipation 
• voice over narration to construct the narrative
• 'Confessional' video diary scenes or access to private behind the scenes moments. intimacy through COS (CU) and camera movements (Z) 
• Involvement of celebrity
• Hybrid forms 
• Equilibrium 
• music had symbolic value