Glossary of Media Terminology

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D N F M V J P D G U O E G F T A E R A I B
P R A J B R W F D P F E X S O Q D H O O V
B K J J C B X G S V J G O H D N E C S A C
I O L T T B I U H C G C T N U G I S E O U
N T X P T X F B P Q M X U O U E F M T H J
T X R S N L K K T L T O S N D S I E I H U
E Q T E L C V X O T S C A O K A N D S B H
R Y M D T F L G K C I X R I M Y G I O D J
T I H O I O N Y I T N T P T E D I A P M I
E B S C X P F T E X S Y C A D J S P P R P
X I S L J I E G G I T I T T I N R R O J M
U M B A O G E O I R I H U N A S E O Y O E
A Y N C E I K Q R Y T D Y E L C I D R B J
L F U I D M M B P Q U S X S A K F U A I Q
I P D N E O H X Y T T S Q E N T I C N F R
T S O H T O U S N M I V P R G X N T I I E
Y N F C E Y T Q D M O W Y P U Q G C B J D
P I A E K Q N P R W N H I E A F I D S J T
G D O T K V D I A J S Q A R G N S P I S G
B N P G J R X U G D M B O U E V P B B G Q
Q T E H A G Q P S U K Q C D S Q F Y V U E

Clues

  • A text that has been designed to be consumed by an audience, e.g a film, radio show, newspaper etc. (5, 7)
  • All to do with the way a text is technically constructed (camera angles, framing, lighting etc). (9, 5)
  • Sound effects, music or narration which is added afterwards. (3, 8, 5)
  • Sound whose source is visible on the screen (i.e tweeting bird). (8, 5)
  • The 'thing' that coveys the meaning, and the meaning conveyed. EG a read rose is a signifier and the signified is love. (18)
  • The idea that within popular culture producers borrow other texts to create interest to the audience who like to share the 'in' joke. Used a lot in the Simpsons. (14)
  • The means by which media communicates to us and the forms and conventions by which it does so. (5, 8)
  • The organisations which produce and control media texts (i.e ITV, BBC) (12)
  • The way in which the media represents the world around us in the form of signs and codes for the audience to read and identify. (14)
  • The way opposites are used to create interest in media texts, such as good/bad, coward/hero, youth/age, black/white. (6, 9)

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