Representation & Genre

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What is genre?
media texts categorized into a distinctive style, form or content.
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Mise en scene
Everything in a scene. (e.g. props, setting, effects, camera, lighting, facial and body expressions).
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What are conventions?
Codes and conventions: a standard way of doing things.
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Give a convention of a horror film?
set at night, suspense music, moonlight,
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What is the defintion of narrative?
the different ways media texts can tell a story,
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Give the definiton of a connotation?
Connotation is the first level of meaning (deeper) meaning
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Give the definition of denotation?
Denotation is the second level of meaning (literal) meaning (e.g. a rose is just a rose).
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What is a stereotype?
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
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Everything in a scene. (e.g. props, setting, effects, camera, lighting, facial and body expressions).

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What are conventions?

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Give a convention of a horror film?

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What is the defintion of narrative?

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