Media Forms & Products
This refers to the type of media, such as film, podcast, or video game
What is a media form?
This is the sequence of events that make up a story.
What is a narrative?
This stage involves creating the media product.
What is production?
This refers to the group of people a media product is made for.
What is the target audience?
These are the technical and symbolic tools used to construct meaning.
What are codes?
This type of media is audio-based and often episodic.
What is a podcast?
This structure follows setup, confrontation, and resolution.
What is the Three Act Structure
A low-budget film made outside major studios is known as what type of production?
What is an independent production?
This term describes how audiences actively interpret media texts.
What is Audience Agency
A low-angle shot is an example of this type of code.
What is a technical code?
This refers to the combination of elements like narrative, style, and audience.
What is a media product?
This theory suggests audiences enjoy predictable story patterns.
What is genre theory?
This stage involves distributing a media product to audiences.
What is distribution?
This movie holds the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in cinema history.
What is Avengers: Endgame
Recurring elements like jump scares in horror films are known as these.
What are conventions?
This term refers to the relationship between a media product, its audience, and the way in which it is made and consumed.
What is media context?
This term refers to the order in which story events are presented to the audience, which may differ from the chronological order.
What is Narrative Structure?
These methods ensure that the media creator only shows the parts of information that they want to, to strenghten their message.
What are Selection and Omission
Different viewers interpreting Joker in different ways demonstrates this theory
What is audience interpretation / reception?
In Spider-Man, Spider-Man faces villains who create conflict and challenge his goals. These opposing character roles are known by this narrative convention?
What are the protagonist and antagonist?
A podcast like Serial primarily relies on which sensory code to communicate meaning?
What is Audio?
In The Farewell, family tension builds around a secret. This ongoing tension is known as this.
What is conflict (narrative development)?
Government funding bodies supporting Australian films are examples of this influence on media industries
What is regulation?
When fans create theories and content about Stranger Things, they become this type of audience?
What is a participatory audience?
A superhero film featuring a final battle, hero costume, and moral victory follows this
What are Genre Conventions?