Analysing moving images revision

Possible texts for study:

• Film Trailers
• TV advert(s)
• Clips (TV or Film)
• News report
• Games Trailers
• Extract from a TV show (game show, Soap, Drama, Comedy etc - any genre)
• Music video
• Extract from a film (any genre)
• Party Political broadcast (elections)
• Extract from a documentary

Ways in which a moving image communicates with its audience:

• Colour
• Tone of voice
• Language (Formal, Informal)
• Editing (Transitions)
• Accents
• Mise-en-scene: Setting, Costume, Lighting, Character Appearance
• Semiotics: Verbal & Non-verbal communication, Denotations and Connotations
• Narrative: The story unfolding
• Genre: the type of product and the signifiers (signs) of which genre it belongs to (including serial/series conventions)

Analysing a moving image using media language:

• Technical codes: Cinematography (camerawork & lighting) and editing
• Sound: Digetic (the audience and actors can hear e.g tv being turned on) and Non-Digetic (only audience can hear e.g. music over the top, voice over etc), Sound effects
• Codes: Actions, Enigma, Cultural, symbolic
• Codes and Conventions: the way things are normally done in products of this kind, and the extent to which this product challenges or reinforces it.

Response to "Show Me" task

Show me- reply to this post by explaining the factors which affect how people respond on Audience Mock Revision


Audiences can respond significantly to a media product in various different ways, this depending on the environment around them, the circumstance of taking in the device or a more personal approach.

The environment which the audience is receiving the media product can affect their response to it dramatically; One example of this would be through environment we are in when watching a particular film. For example if you were to see a horror film in a cinema (regular or Imax) it would have a greater and deeper affect then if you were to watch it in a comfortable sitting at home (on dvd). If you were to watch a horror film at the cinema, you are more likely to be jumpy and find it a lot scarier than you would in the comport of your own home, This would be because of the controlled darkness throughout the film, the curiosity of who is also watching it with you (maybe even sat next to) also with how the film actually affects you. If you were to watch a typical horror film at home, you aren't as likely to have the same affect as you would at the cinema. This is because of the common background distractions: being comfortable at home, etc