News Vocabulary video

DR CAGES

Disability
Regional identity

Class
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Sexuality

Editing

Screen time - how long someone is on screen
Transitions
Order of narrative
Pace - how many cuts.
Special effects

Sound

Music - genre

Contrapuntal/parallel - contrapuntal - happy music behind a murder, parallel - same genre song and film

Diegetic/non diegetic - diegetic - what the actors can hear. Non diegetic - sound edited over the scene.

Off screen - any sound you hear but can't see who/what is making it.

Voiceover

Emotion - how the music sounds/makes you feel.

Dialogue - how they express their voices e.g. evil.

DISTINCT

Describe
In detail
Setting - location, historical time period
Themes - love guilt, revenge, good vs evil
Icons - significant props such as a weapon
Narrative - how a story is told, plot
Characters - boy/girl, background
Textual analysis - style of camera, editing, mise en scene and sound

CLAMPS

Costume, colour
Lighting
Actors
Makeup
Props
Settings

Connotation

What we understand from an image. (what other meaning it has). For example when we see a cross we think of religion or Jesus.

Denotation

What we see when we look at an image. (what it is). For example a cross.

Semiotics

The study of signs. Also of anything which stands for something else, for example naming an object and then saying what the object stands for.

Hybrid

Hybrid - a combination of two genres, for example RomCom.