key concepts of media studies
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Key Concepts of Media Studies. Media forms and conventions. Form. Form can be explained in relation to the shape or skeleton of a text and in this way is often linked to the narrative Stories have forms - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Key Concepts of Media Studies
Media forms and conventions
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Form Form can be explained in relation to the shape or
skeleton of a text and in this way is often linked to the narrative
Stories have forms
Forms of soap operas: continuous, multi-stranded storylines, individual episodes frequently ending with a cliffhanger
Micro elements of text: mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography and sound
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Think… What are the forms of:
Action films?
Horror films?
Chick flicks?
What usually happens in the story structure??
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Style Distinctive look of the media text
Ex: individual style of a particular director
Distinctive use of mise-en-scene, lighting, music, camera angles, movement, framing, editing.
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Guess! Tim Burton style (charlie and the chocolate
factory, corpse bride, etc)
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Alfred Hitchcock (vertigo, psycho, etc)
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Steven Speilberg (Jurassic park, jaws, etc)
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Genre A category of artistic, musical, or literary
composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
In media terminology it can be judged by the codes, conventions, mise-en-scene and the style of the media content
Texts from different mediums may belong to the same genre (e.g. a TV programme like Dr Who and a comic book like The Incredible Hulk can both be categorized as Science Fiction.)
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Genre does not rely simply on what's in a media text but also on the way it is put together (constructed). This can be important, for example, when distinguishing between a horror movie and a thriller, which can deal with similar subject matter, and look the same — lots of action set at night — but belong to separate genres (a horror film takes the audience into a supernatural place, where a thriller sticks to reality).
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Deduce
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Conventions The characteristic ‘ingredients’ of a particular genre
and the elements which make it recognizable can be defined as ‘conventions’.
The provide a common link to a group of films/drama/etc.
Ex: soap operas will contain rolling storylines, recognizable
characters and consistent settings. They tackle social issues and have series of episodes.
Horror: females confronting the evil
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Further reading
http://www.slideshare.net/andywallis/media-language-6842843