GCSE Media Terminology Quiz

Question 1

What term is used for the concept of "looking" at someone?

Accepted Answer

Voyeurism

Question 2

What is Stuart Hall's theory?

Accepted Answer

Reception Theory

Question 3

Which theorist deals with character roles?

Accepted Answer

Propp

Question 4

What term is used to describe "common features of the form or genre"?

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Convention

Question 5

What is a hybrid genre?

Accepted Answer

A combination of two genres

Question 6

What term describes shot types and movement?

Accepted Answer

Cinematography

Question 7

What is the first stage of the media process?

Accepted Answer

Production

Question 8

What term means "what an image suggests"?

Accepted Answer

Connotation

Question 9

What is a demographic?

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Physical qualities of an audience

Question 10

What is the term used for a company that is not owned by another?

Accepted Answer

Independent

Question 11

What is a stereotype?

Accepted Answer

Commonly repeated, oversimplified representations

Question 12

Why do people have negotiated readings?

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Past experiences and beliefs

Question 13

What term describes the choice to include or exclude certain representations?

Accepted Answer

Selection

Question 14

How does the Todorov narrative end?

Accepted Answer

A resolution

Question 15

What is the term used for when a single media product appears across different media forms?

Accepted Answer

Cross media convergence

Question 16

What is the term given to the protagonist by Propp?

Accepted Answer

Hero

Question 17

What does the term intertextuality mean?

Accepted Answer

When one text references another text

Question 18

What is a genre?

Accepted Answer

A category of media

Question 19

What is a "disruption"?

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Breaking of the equilibrium

Question 20

What word describes the opposite of a stereotype?

Accepted Answer

Countertype

Question 21

What does objectification mean?

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Representing a human as an object

Question 22

What is the most common reading of a media text?

Accepted Answer

Dominant

Question 23

What type of narrative is Propp's?

Accepted Answer

A quest

Question 24

What else did Neale say genres are instances of?

Accepted Answer

Difference

Question 25

What is an enigma?

Accepted Answer

Unanswered question

Question 26

What term describes when a company can both produce and distribute media?

Accepted Answer

Vertical integration

Question 27

What is the term for the control and restriction of media?

Accepted Answer

Regulation

Question 28

What is the meaning of mise-en-scene?

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Everything in the frame

Question 29

What does "media industries" mean?

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The producers of the media

Question 30

What stage of the media process includes marketing?

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Distribution

Question 31

What are the four key concepts?

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Language, Audience, Institutions, Representation

Question 32

What is the term for a large company that owns multiple subsidiaries?

Accepted Answer

Conglomerate

Question 33

Whose theory considers equilibriums?

Accepted Answer

Todorov

Question 34

What is a narrative?

Accepted Answer

The story and how it is told

Question 35

What does the uses and gratifications theory suggest about audiences?

Accepted Answer

Why they use the media

Question 36

Who said that genres are an instance of "repetition"?

Accepted Answer

Neale

Question 37

What does "equilibrium" mean?

Accepted Answer

Balanced

Question 38

What does "media language" mean?

Accepted Answer

How the media communicates meaning

Question 39

What is the term to describe a piece of equipment that combines multiple tools?

Accepted Answer

Technological Convergence

Question 40

What is catharsis?

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A release of tension

Question 41

What is a psychographic?

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Mental qualities of an audience

Question 42

What is the name given to the character who provides an item to aid the hero?

Accepted Answer

Donor

Question 43

What term describes the camera viewing women as sexual objects?

Accepted Answer

The Male Gaze

Question 44

What does "media audiences" mean?

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The people who consume media

Question 45

What does "media representations" mean?

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The way things are presented by the media

Question 46

What term describes the way a representation is put together?

Accepted Answer

Construction

Question 47

What does a company own if they are horizontally integrated?

Accepted Answer

Multiple companies who perform the same role

Question 48

What are four uses of the media?

Accepted Answer

Escapism, Surveillance, Interaction, Identification

GCSE Media Terminology Quiz

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GCSE Media Terminology Quiz

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