THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS

You need to become very familiar with these concepts as you will be expected to use them when you analyse any given media product.


Media Language
Representation
Institutions
Audience
Contexts
Denotation/Connotation.

Camera shot and angles.

Lighting: low key/high key.

Editing: fast pace/slow pace, fast motion/slow motion, transitions (fade, cut).

Sound: diegetic/non-diegetic, music, dialogue.

Mise-en-scene: props, make-up and hair, costumes.

Stereotypes.
How the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups.

Age, 
Gender, 
Race, Nationality.
How media industries’ process of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms.



How media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them, and how members of audiences become producers themselves.

Theories:
Uses and Gratifications.

We Media: Consumer and Prosumer.
Social: how media products reflect society and target audience.

Cultural: How media products reflect the arts and culture of the time.

Historical: How media products reflect events and social changes.

Political: How media products reflect political viewpoints, messages, values and beliefs.


Do you find any of these challenging? Which one(s)?

In order to master these concepts you need to be able to understand and recall them effectively as part of your analysis.  

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