Media Key Concepts

Media Key Concepts:

• Media Language
• Representation
• Audiences
• Institutions

Part A: Analyse a 5min clip of a British TV Drama

• Cinematography (Camera Work)
• Editing (Special Effects, Cuts)
• Sound (Diegetic, Non-Diegetic)
• Mise en scene - Setting, Make-up, Props, Location, Lighting etc

Representation
How Media Language builds a representation of the following:

• Age
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Regional Identity
• Ability/Disability
• Class/Social Status

Part B: Audiences & Institutions

Prepare a Case Study of 2 films

You will be tested on your knowledge of the relationship between the people who produce, distribute and exhibit the film (institutions) & the people who go to see it (audience) how, why and where they see them.