MIL 4QU

• Media languages


  Bodes, conventions, formats, symbols and narrative structures that indicate the meaning of media messages to an audience
• Codes


  Systems of signs that when put together create meaning
• Semiotics is the study of signs
• Types of codes


  • Symbolic codes
  • Written codes
  • Technical codes
• Symbolic codes


  • Show what is beneath the surface of what we see (objects, setting, body language, clothing, color, etc.) or iconic symbols that are easily understood
• Symbolic codes


  • A red rose may convey romance or love
  • A clenched fist may convey anger
  • Red in a traffic light symbolizes stop, green symbolizes go, yellow symbolizes ready
• Written codes


  • Use of language style and textual layout (headlines, captions, speech bubbles, language style, etc.)
• Written codes


  • Headlines
  • Captions
  • Speech bubbles
• Technical codes


  • Ways in which equipment is used to tell the story, including sound, camera angles, types of shots and lighting as well as camera techniques, framing, depth of field, lighting, exposure and juxtaposition
• Camera shots


  • Extreme long shot
  • Long shot
  • Medium long shot
  • Full shot
  • Medium close shot
  • Close up shot
  • Extreme close up shot
• Points of view


  • Establishing shot
  • Point-of-view shot
  • Over-the-shoulder shot
  • Reaction shot
  • Insert shot
  • Reverse-angle shot
  • Hand-held camera shot
• Camera angles


  • Aerial shot
  • High-angle shot
  • Low-angle shot
  • Eye-level shot
• Camera movements


  • Pan shot
  • Tilt shot
  • Tracking shot
  • Zoom
• Conventions


  Standard or norm that acts as a rule governing behaviour, generally established and accepted ways of doing something
• Message


  The information sent to a receiver from a source
• Audience


  The group of consumers for whom the media message was constructed as well as anyone else who is exposed to the message
• Producers


  People engaged in the process of creating and putting together media content to make a finished media product
• Stakeholders


  Libraries, archives, museums, internet and other relevant information providers
• Extreme Long Shot

  
• Full Shot

  
• Medium Close Shot

  
• Close Up Shot

  
• Extreme Close Up Shot

  
• Establishing Shot

  
• Over-the-Shoulder Shot

  
• Reaction Shot

  
• Insert Shot

  
• Reverse-Angle Shot

  
• Hand-held Camera Shot

  
• Aerial Shot

  
• High Angle Shot

  
• Low Angle Shot

  
• Eye-level Shot

  
• Pan Shot

  
• Tilt Shot

  
• Zoom

  
• Long Shot

  
• Medium Long Shot

  
• Point-of-View Shot

  
• Tracking Shot