Media Language

What is intertextuality?

• Media that is available internationally

• When text in a design crosses over each other

• where a media product refers to another text to

  communicate meaning to the audience.

• where a media product follows rules to be identifiable

What is denotation?

• The way music is written

• The literal meaning

• the suggested meaning

• brief notes

What does this definition refer to? "the elements of media

language that usually occur in particular forms"

• connotation

• codes and conventions

• genre

• intertextuality

True or false - connotations are open to interpretation?

• True

• False

A connotation is

• deeper meaning

• superfluous

• irrelevant

• exactly what you see

Media language is

• totally made up

• the words spoken in media products

• the definition of words in print

• the way message are conveyed to the audience

Narrative refers to

• the voiceover we hear in media texts

• the drama on screen

• the story or plotline

• the origin of a piece of media

The type or category of a product is known as...?

• format

• production

• genre

• synopsis

The Reception Theory which states that 'all media texts are encoded for the audience to decode' belongs to...?

• Laura Mulvey

• Stuart Hall

• Todorov

• Robert Barthes

What is theory developed by Roland Barthes stating that "Something is hidden from the audience to create intrigue"?

• Male Gaze

• Connotation

• Enigma

• Binary Opposition