AS Media Key concepts and analysing them in the Exam

1.What are the Media Key Concepts:

• Representation
• Audience institutuion
• Mise en scene
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Sound

2.What does each one of them represent?

- Representation

• the age
• gender
• ethnicity
• sexuality
• regional identity
• ability/disability
• class/social status of the charachters

-Mise en Scene

• the props used
• costumes, make up
• body language
• location
• light,colours and mainly everything the audience can see on the set

-Cinematography

• shot types
• different techniques of filming such as e,g, tracking, close up shot, medium shot etc.

-Editing

• the adding of sounds effects or digital visual effects to the sequence by the editor to make it look better and more engaging to the audience

-Sound

• the sounds within the world of the film and the added on sound effects or score music, used to make the film more appealing and dramatic.

3. How does the exam go about testing your knowledge of each concept?

- By using and understanding Media Language, we are supposed to list the Key Concepts and analyse the way the producer has used them in the sequence that's been screened .
- We have to explain what each concept contains in the film and how is that representing it as. For example are the characters represented using stereotypes or not, is the mise en scene hinting on the genre of the film and what that is. Does the mise en scene show who are the vilains and who are the protagonists if any. We have to basicaly analyze every one of those aspects and back our opinion up with examples from what we've seen in the sequence.
We have to understand what each concept means so that we can find and analyze them.