Technologies
This type of camera movement involves physically moving the camera closer to or further from the subject, often using a dolly.
What is a dolly shot?
This term refers to the way people, places, events, and ideas are portrayed in media texts.
What is representation?
This term refers to the group of people a media text is intended to reach.
What is the target audience?
This term refers to the organisations and industries involved in the production, distribution, and regulation of media texts.
What are media institutions?
This term refers to the visual, technical, and symbolic tools used to construct meaning in media texts.
What are media codes?
This editing software is widely used in the film industry for professional post-production.
What is Adobe Premiere Pro (or Final Cut Pro)?
In media, this term describes the deliberate inclusion of diverse characters to reflect different cultures, genders, and abilities.
What is inclusivity?
This type of audience actively engages with media texts, often creating their own interpretations or content.
What is an active audience?
This global streaming platform has disrupted traditional film and television institutions by producing and distributing original content.
What is Netflix?
This type of shot frames a subject from the waist up and is often used to show body language and dialogue.
What is a medium shot?
This term refers to the merging of traditional and digital media technologies to create new ways of producing and distributing content.
What is convergence?
This type of representation challenges stereotypes by portraying characters or groups in unexpected ways.
What is subversion?
This term describes the way media texts position audiences to adopt a particular perspective or interpretation.
What is audience positioning?
This Australian government body regulates media content to ensure it meets classification standards.
What is the Australian Classification Board (ACB)?
This editing technique ensures logical flow between shots, maintaining spatial and temporal continuity.
What is continuity editing?
This type of lighting setup uses three light sources: key light, fill light, and backlight.
What is three-point lighting?
This term refers to the system of beliefs and values embedded in media texts, often reflecting dominant societal norms.
What is ideology?
This theory suggests that audiences are not passive consumers but instead interpret media texts based on their own cultural and social contexts.
What is reception theory?
This term refers to the process by which a small number of large corporations control the majority of media production and distribution.
What is media consolidation?
This term refers to the arrangement of elements within the frame, including setting, props, lighting, and actor placement.
What is mise-en-scène?
This emerging technology allows audiences to immerse themselves in a simulated environment, often using a headset.
What is virtual reality (VR)?
This concept refers to the deliberate omission or selection of elements in a media text to shape how audiences perceive a subject.
What is construction?
This term refers to the phenomenon where audiences are exposed only to information that aligns with their existing beliefs, often reinforced by social media algorithms.
What is an echo chamber?
This term describes the practice of funding media projects by collecting small contributions from a large number of people, often via online platforms.
What is crowdfunding?
This type of sound originates within the world of the film and can be heard by the characters.
What is diegetic sound?