Key Terms

Just some terms that may help boost up your Media//terms that'll come in useful. Adding more as the year progesses.

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  • Created by: Kelly
  • Created on: 19-09-14 12:45
Genre
Classfication of films/any media type into grouping.
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Codes and Conventions
Established rules or understanding of what is deployed in texts.
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Iconography
the visual images and symbols used in a work. A set of sights that have a familiar set of resemblence within a particular media.
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Narrative
How you tell a story, not simply the story.
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Linear Narrative
Everything is told in order (Cause than effect
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Non-Linear Narratvie
Not told in the right order (Effect does not always follow cause)
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Equilibrum
Part of Todorv's Narrative Theory. It means balanced but is also the 'begining' to a story.
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Disquilbirum
Part of Todorv's Narrative Theory.
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Established rules or understanding of what is deployed in texts.

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Codes and Conventions

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the visual images and symbols used in a work. A set of sights that have a familiar set of resemblence within a particular media.

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Card 4

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How you tell a story, not simply the story.

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Card 5

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Everything is told in order (Cause than effect

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