As Media Studies:

Media Studies Induction Quiz

Name: Due: Tuesday 11th October

Complete the following questions. All the answers are in your notes or packs!

Representation 1) In media studies - what is representation?

2) What is mediation?

Visual Auditory and Technical Codes: Semiotics (the study of signs) 3) What is a sign?

4) What is a code?

5) What are denotations (what is denoted)?

6) What are connotations (what is connoted)?

7) What is polysemy?

8) How do media producers fix the meaning of signs?

9) Give 2 example of this idea/technique.

10) What is referential knowledge?

Cinematography

11) What is cinematography?

12) Name the shot seen through a character (or the protagonists) eyes?

13) Name the 5 main shot sizes? a) Extreme Long shot b) c) d) e)

14) Using the correct terminology, describe the camera angle in the following shots:

15) Camera Movement: Which three types of camera shot moves to follow the characters around? a) b) c) Mise en Scene:

16) What 5 things can be described as Mise-en-Scene? a) b) c) d) e)

17) What does black and white in films and TV often connote?

Lighting: 18) Correct the following common mistakes in the use of terminology:

a. Bright Lighting = b. Dark/Dull Lighting = c. The characters face is half in light = d. The characters face and body is in darkness and only their outline can be seen =

Editing 19) What term do we use to describe editing that allows time to pass quickly?

20) What type of Editing shows all the action in order and allows the narrative to flow making us forget the joins in the editing?

21) How might an editor create excitement in a chase scene or argument? (Editing technique - pace)

22) How might an editor create a soothing or even emotional scene through editing pace?

23) Which type of cut connotes the end of a scene to the audience?

Sound:

24) What is the term meaning sound from within the story world/ the world of the media text (the diegesis)?

25) What term means sound from outside the story world/ the diegesis?

26) Give one example of each type of sound. a) b)

27) What term is used for sound that contradicts the image on screen?

28) What term is used for sound that matches the image on screen?

29) Name two types of sound that act as narrative devices (giving us lots of information about the plot-characters etc) a) b)