Across
- 3. the process of describing the details of a text
- 5. when there are many possible interpretations or meanings
- 6. a great example of blending genres to widen appeal, the deceased title character is in a low budget British zom-rom-com!
- 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
- 9. what you need to combine to create a clear preferred reading
- 10. the camera position that makes a person look powerful or threatening
- 11. a corporation with multiple subsidiaries
- 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
- 16. the term for combining 2+ genres such as rom-com
- 18. a notably thick font, often used to connote simplicity or appeal to younger audiences
- 19. this shot frames the body from roughly the waste up
- 20. a font without added bits such as Arial or Comic Sans, is sans-…
- 22. breaking down the media language of a text to understand the processes at work
- 25. the time between cinema and DVD release is known as the release …; something you look out of
- 28. production wing of this big six member, Murdoch-owned, Oscar-winner for Birdman, Slumdog…, 12 Years A Slave
- 29. Marketing agencies split the audience into these (young, old, male, female)
- 31. the dominant production model of the film industry, Bridget Jones’s Baby being an example
- 32. one of the big six, merged with Time, home of the Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Hobbit; also Marilyn Manson’s real surname
- 33. the ‘--- ---‘, Hollywood studios that dominate film production AND distribution globally
- 34. not the core audience but important to also target to widen appeal; a school for older kids!
Down
- 1. the symbolic meaning of a signifier
- 2. the type of close-up you’d use to really emphasize emotion
- 4. when enough signifiers are combined to create a clear reading
- 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
- 12. The uses and … theory lists reasons why audiences pick media texts, such as social identity/identifying with
- 14. framing from roughly the knee to head
- 15. the media language you use to signify something’s weird…
- 17. realistic; convincing
- 21. meaning of one text requiring knowledge of others
- 23. Owned by Comcast, this big six member boasts Focus Features and recent acquisition Dreamworks among its subsidiaries, and a US TV network
- 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
- 26. the core audience; a school for young kids!
- 27. Stuart Hall describes the … reading as being how the text creators would like you to respond to their media language choices
- 30. a single detail picked out from textual deconstruction for its symbolic meaning