Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Key Media Vocab

Genre - Art, music, literature or film which could be organised into a category depending on its type. For example; in film we have horror, action, romance genres…

Sub-genre - when two genres are combined together.

Hybrid genre (A cross-genre) - A hybrid genre is a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from more than two genres.

Codes and conventions - create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the cameras work in a film.

Genre tropes - a genre used in a new and different way in order to create an artistic effect to create a story.

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