Monday 29 September 2008

My media vocab.. oh yeah im too cool!

Decided to keep a record of all the media vocab thats thrown at us throughout the course.. just so that when it comes to exams i can wow the examiners with my amazing mediawords!!




Verisimilitude - trying to create a believable/plausable sense of reality

Mise en scene - everything that is conveyed in a frame taken from a peice of media

Enigma code - a mysterious symbol

Narrative - how the story is told

Hypodermic model - an intended message which is directly received and accepted by the receiver (audience)

Uses and gratifications - the idea that people are not helpless victims of all powerful media, but use media to fulfill their various needs.

Cinematography - is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema.

2 comments:

Sacha van Straten said...

This is an excellent idea. Maybe we should start a Wiki on Moodle, so that we can all build up a useful glossary for revision? I'm impressed by your dedication. Well done!

Georgia Mai said...

Thankyou.. im useless with notes on paper because i loose them all the time, so i thought it might be a good idea to write them on here just incase..