MIL 6

• Media Language the meaning of media text is conveyed to the audience
• media language to convey the meaning of the text through its signs and symbols
• Visual Language what is on the screen has been chosen specifically to generate a series of effects and meanings
• Visual Language utilize camera angles and movements
• Aural Language sound can help create a scene and construct the environment, atmosphere and mood
• Aural Language can help us to define the genre of a piece
• Written Language in print-based media, also in text such as captions for photographs
• Written Language caption allows the publication to present story in a particular way
• Verbal Language is used in television and film
• Verbal Language how the language is delivered
• Non-Verbal language gestures and actions
• Non-Verbal Language meaning received by the audience is seen through how the actor uses their body
• Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols, discussed the literal and potential meaning
• Denotation literal or obvious meaning
• Connotation- potential or suggested meaning
• codes are systems pf signs, which create meaning to communicate ideas and impressions
• Technical Codes equipment used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in film
• Symbolic Codes language, dress and actions of characters
• Symbolic codes some codes fit both categories music for example, is both technical and symbolic
• Convention is a practice or technique that is widely used in field
• Convention is a habit or a long accepted way of doing things, relatively on the styles or content
• Form Conventions ways in which the types of media codes are exposed to be arranged
• Genre Conventions refer to the common use of the elements of narratives such as the characters settings or themes in a certain type of media
• Linear plot events would occur in the same order they would occur in real life
• Manipulation of time flashback, foreshadowing
• Suspense is hinted something dramatic is going to happen
• Climax and Resolution main problems occur, comes to a head and sorted out
• Sting in the tail ending is complete surprise and unexpected
• Open ending loose ends left, audience may be left wondering as story seems not over
• Sympathetic characters with whom the audience strongly identifies with
• unsympathetic characters audience dislikes them
• Theme the subject or a specific theme in a scene or the entire film
• Image analysis the extraction of meaningful information from images
• Framing defines the position from which the image was created
• angle refers to the camera angle in relation to the vertical
• Height at which the sort is taken usually eye-level, just under two meter
• Depth of the field the distance between the nearest and farthest area from the camera which is focus
• Conventional photography focus on the main object with the background out of focus
• Wide-angle lens make the scene appear deeper than it is
• extreme wide angle fish eye effect