Vocabulary

Binary Oppositions - Where texts are organised around sets of opposite values such as good and evil, light and dark.

Diagetic/non - Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: voices of characters.

Hegemony/hegemonic - Ladership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others.

Ideology - An ideology is a world view, a system of values, attitudes and beliefs which an individual, group or society holds to be true or important
 
Intetextuality - The shaping of texts' meanings by other texts

Representation - T

he action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented

 

Iconography - The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these

 

Preferred reading -

Oppositional reading - The audience rejects the message

Archetype - A very typical example of a certain person or thing

Stereotype - A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Verisimilitude - The appearance of being true or real.

High key lighting - Aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene

Low key lighting - Often associated with the dark look of film noir

Contrapuntal sound - Occurs when the music and visual elements play against each other, and are in contrast.

Ambient sound - the background sounds which are present in a scene or location

Foley - relating to or concerned with the addition of recorded sound effects after the shooting of a film.

Dramtatic irony - Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Ellipsis - The removal or shortening of elements of a narrative to speed up the action

Prop's character theory - After studying 100 fariytales, Vladimir Propp developed a character theory for studying media texts and productions. Prop discovered that all characters fall into 7 broard character types, all of which can be found in a variety of different media.

Todorov's narrative theory - Stes that most story's or plot lines follow the same pattern or path

Restricted Narrative - The characters and the audience learn story information at the same time.

Omniscient narrative - The audience knows more, sees more, hears, more than all the characters

Linear narrative -