Media Language Terms #1

What word means 'beyond the obvious meaning'?

• connotation

• denotation

What word means 'the obvious meaning'?

• connotation

• denotation

What word means 'fixes meaning between pictures and text'?

• caption

• anchorage

What word means 'when audiences interpret a text'?

• encoding

• decoding

What phrase means 'everything in a scene', e.g. clothing, body language, props, lighting, setting and location?

• mise-en-scene

• visual codes

What does the phrase 'diegetic sound' mean?

• sound that the characters can not hear

• sound within the narrative world

What does 'non-diegetic sound' mean?

• sound within the narrative world

• sound that the characters can not hear

What does the word 'masthead' mean?

• the header

• the title of a magazine / newspaper

What does the word 'pug' mean?

• a cute dog

• a block of colour to separate text

• the ears of a newspaper front page

What does the word 'puff' mean?

• an incentive placed on a front cover, using text and a shape

• a cover line on a front cover