MEDIA EXAM 2023
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- Representation
Answer: through a producer's process of selection, omission and
construction, people, places and ideas are re-presented to an audience to reflect and/or depict reality
- Convention
Answer: the ways in which signs are combined that are particular to
media forms or text types. They are a set of 'rules' appropriate to media forms/text types
- the usual way that media operate within each facet of media.
- Codes
Answer: the signs that communicate meaning
- Technical codes
Answer: include production techniques such as camera framing, depth of
field, shot type, lighting, special effects and editing. It also comprises of imaging codes, such as layout, font selection, the positioning of objects on a page and choice of paper stock
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- symbolic codes
Answer: refer to objects, settings, body language, clothing, hair/make- up,
and colour
- written codes
Answer: include all aspects of written content, including headlines,
captions, speech bubbles and language style
- stereotype
Answer: an oversimplified representation of a person, group, place or
idea that has been repeated so often it appears natural. (support with an example)
- countertype
Answer: a positive stereotype, a reverse stereotype (and as stereotypes
are generally negative, countertypes can be thought of as 'reverse stereotypes' .. they still however, are a form of stereotype.
- media text
Answer: a media product
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