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23 Cards in this Set
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What is Stacking? |
Using different types of unrelated media on top of each other. |
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What is meshing? |
Using related pieces of media on top of each other. |
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What is converging? |
When multiple types of media work together. |
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Name as many sections of post modernism as possible. |
Globalization, Meta narrative rejection, simulacra, hyper reality, Bricolage, Camp, Parody, Pastiche, Homage and Intertextuality. |
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Name the two main regulators for print |
IPSO and Impress |
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What is semiotics? |
The study of signs and their meanings. |
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Who is Ferdinand Saussure? |
First person to start the study of signs. |
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What did Charles Pierce do? |
Started calling the study of signs Semiotics. |
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What was Roland Barthes responsible for? |
Applied semiotics to media and realised how big it was. (The grandfather of Media Studies) |
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What is a polysemic sign? |
A sign which carries many different meanings at the same time. |
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What is an index sign? |
A sign which is closely related to what it signifies. |
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What is an iconic sign? |
The sign looks like what it is signifying. |
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What is a symbolic sign? |
Signs which don't have an obvious relation ship to what they mean. |
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What is and arbitrary sign? |
Signs in which the meaning changes but doesn't mean two things at once. |
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Give me an example of anchorage. |
Any logo, slogan or caption which means something. |
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Name the key components of Mise en Scene. |
Light & Colour, Costume Hair & Makeup, Props & Setting, Positioning of Characters & Objects and Facial Expressions & Body Language. |
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Name 6 types of camera movement. |
Tilt, Pan, Roll, Track, Crane and Verité |
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Name at least 5 different types of framing for a shot. |
Extreme Close-up, Close-up, Mid-Shot, Long-Shot, Extreme Long-Shot, POV |
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What is parallel sound? |
When the sound agrees with or links with something within the scene. |
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What is contrapuntal sound? |
Sound which doesn't make sense within the scene. |
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What is a sound bridge? |
Sound is used to bridge between two shots. You can here it before you see it. |
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Four different types of cut. |
Fade, Swipe, Dissolve, Straight, Graphic match |
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What is the easiest way to identify a genre? |
By looking at the main codes and conventions of the text. |
