Vocab - Media Language

What describes a shot where an object near the front is in focus, and everything else behind is out of focus? 

What camerawork technique has been used?

What theory suggests audiences will either have the preferred, negotiated or oppositional reading of a text?

What term describes how the story is told including the plot and structure?

What does connotation mean?

What technique involves the camera staying stationary but moving from side to side?

What type of lighting has been used?

What technique is when a sound effect is associated with a particular character, setting, situation in a film?

What sound technique is being described the background sounds which are present in a scene or location?

Which narrative theorist suggested that the narrative consists of 5 development stages?

What editing technique is a series of shots edited together to something happening over a period time quickly?

What area of research suggests that gender and sexuality are constructs of society rather than the nature?

The big conglomerates that dominate Hollywood cinema are refer to as…

What is a representation that consists of a few exaggerated traits called?

What shot type is often used during conversations to depicts body language and can reveal more of the setting?

Which of the following is not part of media language?

What camera technique is not used to set a scene and establish location?

What camera technique involves a movement of the camera that covers a semi-circle around a subject?

What term refers to a sound not present in the scene?

What character type causes a disruption within the narrative that needs to be resolved?

What type of focus has been used in this shot?

What term is describes the process when the words that accompany an image and contribute to the meaning of that image?

What type of editing that maintains the eye level when cutting from a character to what’s the character sees?

Who came up with the cross cultural consumer characterization (4c’s) model?

Which theorist suggested that in all text there are archetypal characters with specific roles? 

What camera technique involves the action moving directly toward the camera?

What technique has been used?

What lighting technique means the light is positioned from behind the subject?

What technique involves an unseen speaker narrates about what is happening onscreen?

What term is used to describe the classification of a text?

What French term means put on the scene?

What camerawork technique has been used?

What shot (usually wide or long) is used at the start of a programme or film to show the start of a new scene?

What is the most used editing transition, which sees a sudden movement from one shot or audio sequence to the next?

What camera shot is used to show prominent detail and facial expression to create intimacy and show emotions?

What camera technique is not shot from directly overhead to emphasize the spectacle?

What shot type involves the frame moving either closer or further away from the action onscreen.

What term suggests that the most important visionary in the creation of a film is the director?

What term describes statistical information that relates to an audience?

What type of lighting has been used?

What is called when a text makes reference to another media text?

What camera movement involves moving the camera vertically up and down from a fixed position

What camera technique has been used?

Who devised the male gaze theory, which argued the media films women from the male’s perspective?

What is the alternative name for the editing technique superimposition?

What camera technique has been used?

What camera technique has been used?

What technique has been used?

What sound that comes from the fictional world/ from within the diegesis?

What camera technique is used to connote instability of the subject’s emotions or the tone of the setting?

Mixing together parts of two or more separate scenes is an editing technique known as what?

What sound term is used to define that which is spoken by actors/presenters?

What type of lighting is where there is a bright and well lit scene with very few shadows?

In terms of the demographic of an audience, which one is the odd one out?

What type of edit has shot that momentarily interrupts the main action by showing a related action before cutting back?

What is the term used to describe a sound which continues from one scene onto another?

Which of the following is not part of the visual code you can analyse?

A zolly is when the camera moves closer or further from the subject while adjusting the zoom.

What technique is a very fast camera movement between two or more characters all points of interest.