Media Critique Vocabulary

Which is an example of a blurb?

• "Characters were mostly well developed with interesting storylines."

• "Visually stunning! An amazing joyride!"

• "The graphics were strong, but could have used more plot."

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When the media is not remarkable or memorable, you might call it:

• mediocre

• Lackluster

• obnoxious

• average

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This is a trope or device that is so overused it no longer surprises or interests the audience:

• climax

• vampirism

• cliche

• extremism

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When characters develop over the course of the story and the audience cares about them, it is called a _____ story.

• Plot Driven

• Character Driven

• human-like

• Human interest

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This is when a film's premise is so fascinating people will see the film without knowing much else about it:

• Blockbuster

• Cliche

• High Concept

• Ideal marketing

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These techniques are used to get audience excited to see a movie

• Extreme

• word of mouth

• blockbuster

• Hype

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The audience demographics of Twilight might be:

• Teenaged girls

• Teenaged boys

• 7 year old children

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What type of rating system is usually used on Amazon?

• 1-10 rating

• Percentage rating

• x/5 star rating

• candy bars

Telling someone who has never seen Star Wars that Darth Vader is Luke's father is an example of a:

• trope

• cliche

• spoiler

• audience type

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If I don't like clowns and I go to see the movie IT, I may not be able to critique it fairy because of

• critical bias

• critical mass

• acrophobia

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