GCSE Some major terms

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Across
  1. 3. the process of describing the details of a text
  2. 5. when there are many possible interpretations or meanings
  3. 6. a great example of blending genres to widen appeal, the deceased title character is in a low budget British zom-rom-com!
  4. 7. big six member owned by Viacom whose biggest hit remains Titanic, but also home for the Michael Bay CGI-fest that is the Transformers series
  5. 9. what you need to combine to create a clear preferred reading
  6. 10. the camera position that makes a person look powerful or threatening
  7. 11. a corporation with multiple subsidiaries
  8. 13. 6th on BoxOfficeMojo’s studio revenue list for 2016, the big six parent name and its main (geographic) subsidiary; home of Spiderman, its biggest hit so far; suffered an embarrassing hack attack
  9. 16. the term for combining 2+ genres such as rom-com
  10. 18. a notably thick font, often used to connote simplicity or appeal to younger audiences
  11. 19. this shot frames the body from roughly the waste up
  12. 20. a font without added bits such as Arial or Comic Sans, is sans-…
  13. 22. breaking down the media language of a text to understand the processes at work
  14. 25. the time between cinema and DVD release is known as the release …; something you look out of
  15. 28. production wing of this big six member, Murdoch-owned, Oscar-winner for Birdman, Slumdog…, 12 Years A Slave
  16. 29. Marketing agencies split the audience into these (young, old, male, female)
  17. 31. the dominant production model of the film industry, Bridget Jones’s Baby being an example
  18. 32. one of the big six, merged with Time, home of the Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Hobbit; also Marilyn Manson’s real surname
  19. 33. the ‘--- ---‘, Hollywood studios that dominate film production AND distribution globally
  20. 34. not the core audience but important to also target to widen appeal; a school for older kids!
Down
  1. 1. the symbolic meaning of a signifier
  2. 2. the type of close-up you’d use to really emphasize emotion
  3. 4. when enough signifiers are combined to create a clear reading
  4. 8. films budgeted at $100m+ risk the financial future of the production companies; Elberse uses the term ‘blockbuster’ to denote the same concept of focusing marketing resources on fewer major releases
  5. 12. The uses and … theory lists reasons why audiences pick media texts, such as social identity/identifying with
  6. 14. framing from roughly the knee to head
  7. 15. the media language you use to signify something’s weird…
  8. 17. realistic; convincing
  9. 21. meaning of one text requiring knowledge of others
  10. 23. Owned by Comcast, this big six member boasts Focus Features and recent acquisition Dreamworks among its subsidiaries, and a US TV network
  11. 24. the term used when discussing how much money a film has made; this is the combined price of ticket sales, doesn’t consider distributor or exhibitor cuts from the total
  12. 26. the core audience; a school for young kids!
  13. 27. Stuart Hall describes the … reading as being how the text creators would like you to respond to their media language choices
  14. 30. a single detail picked out from textual deconstruction for its symbolic meaning