Free WACE Year 11 Media Production and Analysis Flashcard Review
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What is popular culture?
Media products and practices widely shared and enjoyed by large audiences at a particular time, such as chart music, streaming series, games and viral formats.
Name four kinds of context that shape media work.
Historical, social and cultural, technological, and economic or industrial context.
What is media convergence?
The merging of forms, technologies and platforms so one piece of content can move across radio, video, social media and games.
How should you prove a trend?
Name the pattern, show it in more than one example or over time, and explain the contextual reasons it emerged.
Describe a linear three-part narrative structure.
An equilibrium is disrupted, creating conflict, and a resolution restores or changes the original order.
What is the difference between episodic and serial structures?
Episodic instalments are mostly self-contained; serial structures carry story arcs across many episodes.
List the four narrative elements named in this course.
Characters, settings, conflicts and resolutions.
What are technical codes?
Meanings made through equipment use, such as shot size, angle, camera movement, lighting, focus and editing.
What is the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound?
Diegetic sound exists in the story world and characters can hear it; non-diegetic sound, such as a score or voice-over, is added for the audience.
What are conventions?
The expected ways codes are used and combined within a medium, genre or style, which help audiences recognise it.
How is a theme different from a topic?
In these notes, a topic is a subject (school); a theme is an insight about life stated as a sentence (the pressure to fit in can erase individuality).
Name the three ways an audience can read a preferred meaning.
Dominant (accept), negotiated (accept in part and adapt), oppositional (reject).
Define representation.
The constructed way media present concepts, people, places, events or ideas; always one version of the subject, never reality itself.
What are the three selection processes in constructing a representation?
Selection (what is included), omission (what is left out) and emphasis (what is given most importance).
What is anchorage?
Written text, such as a caption or headline, that fixes the intended meaning of an image.
What questions help you analyse a representation?
Who or what is represented, how, by whom, for whom, and whose perspective is missing?
What is a mainstream audience?
A large, broad audience that shares the dominant values of a society, targeted by most popular culture.
Why do popular culture producers align representations with mainstream values?
So the work feels familiar and acceptable to large audiences, supporting commercial success.
What does naturalised mean?
A constructed representation has been repeated so often that it seems normal or common sense.
Define stereotype.
An oversimplified, generalised representation of a group based on a few characteristics, repeated until it seems natural.