The document provides definitions for various film and media terminology related to sound, shots, signs, narrative structures, genres, and theories of media consumption and effects. It asks questions to test knowledge of these terms, defining key concepts like diegetic vs non-diegetic sound, close up shots, symbolic vs denotative meanings of signs, linear vs non-linear narratives, and frameworks for audience reception and uses of media like Hall's encoding/decoding model and Dyer's utopias.
41. 5. What’s this kind of shot called? ANSWER: EXTREME CLOSE UP
42. 6. What types of code include body language and facial expression?
43. 6. What types of code include body language and facial expression? ANSWER: NON-VERBAL CODE or VISUAL CODE
44. 7. What type of sign looks like the thing it represents?
45. 7. What type of sign looks like the thing it represents? ANSWER: ICONIC SIGN
46. 8. What type of sign is the spoken/written word (with the exception of onomoatopoeia)?
47. 8. What type of sign is the spoken/written word (with the exception of onomoatopoeia)? ANSWER: SYMBOLIC SIGN
48. 9. What type of sign is this? (The answer is NOT ‘a road sign’)
49. 9. What type of sign is this? (The answer is NOT ‘a road sign’) ANSWER: INDEXICAL SIGN
50. 10. What is disequilibrium and what comes before and after it?
51. 10. What is disequilibrium and what comes before and after it? ANSWER: It is the state of chaos/imabalance/a problem/dilemma. It is preceeded by the equilibrium and followed by a new equilibrium
53. 11. Whose theory includes the term ‘disequilibrium? ANSWER: Todorov
54. 12. Name three character types that Propp proposed could be found in most Russian fairy tales?
55. 12. Name three character types that Propp proposed could be found in most Russian fairy tales? ANSWER: The hero / false hero / dispatcher / helper / princess / magician etc.
56. 13. What do you call a literal meaning of a sign?
57. 13. What do you call a literal meaning of a sign? ANSWER: DENOTATION
58. 14. What do you call its symbolic meaning (what it represents)?
59. 14. What do you call its symbolic meaning (what it represents)? ANSWER: CONNOTATION
60. 15. What do you call the part of the image that is in front and (usually) in focus?
61. 15. What do you call the part of the image that is in front and (usually) in focus? ANSWER: FOREGROUND
62. 16. What do you call the part of the image that is behind?
63. 16. What do you call the part of the image that is behind? ANSWER: BACKGROUND
64. 17. What is the technique of leaving pieces out by editing?
65. 17. What is the technique of leaving pieces out by editing? ANSWER: ELLIPSES
66. 18. What is the name given to the ingredients of a certain genre / the parts that work together in signifying the genre?
67. 18. What is the name given to the ingredients of a certain genre / the parts that work together in signifying the genre? ANSWER: THE REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTS
68. 19. What do you call an individual or specific part of a genre? Clue... A genre............
69. 19. What do you call an individual or specific part of a genre? Clue... A genre............ ANSWER: CODE/TROPE
71. 20. What three things can a text do to a stereotype? ANSWER: REINFORCE / MODIFY / SUBVERT
72. 21. What three kinds of readings does Stuart Hall suggest a text has?
73. 21. What three kinds of readings does Stuart Hall suggest a text has? ANSWER: PREFERRED / NEGOTIATED / OPPOSITIONAL
74. 22. Who claimed that woman have traditionally been constructed to be look at by the dominant male gaze. What date did she write up this theory?
75. 22. Who claimed that woman have traditionally been constructed to be look at by the dominant male gaze. What date did she write up this theory? ANSWER: Laura Mulvey (1975)
79. 24. What is a mix of genres called? ANSWER: A HYBRID GENRE
80. 25. What is a specific branch of a genre called (e.g. The superhero genre as a specific part of the action genre)
81. 25. What is a specific branch of a genre called (e.g. The superhero genre as a specific part of the action genre)ANSWER: A SUB-GENRE
82. 26. What type of narrative presents events in time order.
83. 26. What type of narrative presents events in time order.ANSWER: A LINEAR NARRATIVE
84. 27. What’s it called when events are shown out of time-order?
85. 27. What’s it called when events are shown out of time-order?ANSWER: A NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE
86. 28. Name three of Richard Dyer’s ‘Utopias’ (reasons why people consume media texts)
87. 28. Name three of Richard Dyer’s ‘Utopias’ (reasons why people consume media texts)ANSWER: ENERGY / COMMUNITY / CLARITY or TRANSPARENCY / ABUNDANCE / INTENSITY
88. 29. Name three of Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratifications of media texts.
89. 29. Name three of Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratifications of media texts.ANSWER: INFORMATION / PERSONAL IDENTITY / SOCIAL INTERACTION / ENTERTAINMENT
90. 30. Name two demographics and two psychographics.
91. 30. Name two demographics and two psychographics.DEMOGRAPHICS: A / B / C1 / C2 / D / EPSYCHOGRAPHICS: ASPIRER, SUCCEEDER, REFORMER, EXPLORER, RESIGNED, STRUGGLER
92. 31. What are the 5 stages of writing a paragraph of analysis?