Across
- 4. A term of classification which groups media texts of a particular kind together – usually particular kinds of film or TV narrative, but styles, stars and production companies may all be used to make generic distinctions between texts
- 5. Icons are particular signs that are powerfully associated with something else, such as religious icons. By extension, in media, icons are signs we associate with particular genres (e.g. technology for sci-fi, saloon doors for westerns).
- 7. The visual information in a scene or shot, such as, setting, lighting, colour, shape, costume, make-up, expression, movement, symmetry. Mise-en-scène tends to refer to the content of a shot, but this will be inflected by the shot-type.
- 8. A term which has arisen to account for the various convergent combinations of old and new media, for example, Amazon, Netflix and iPlayer are internet platforms for distributing and exhibiting TV and film. A platform is a technological space in which media can be consumed.
Down
- 1. The processes (and end results) by which reality is subject to selection, exaggeration and repetition, so that certain representations (often of subordinated groups and associated places) become typical and taken for granted. Also used, more neutrally, to refer to aesthetic representation.
- 2. The coming together of media technologies so that the boundaries blur. Usually this refers to technologies of distribution and reception (e.g. TV and the internet).
- 3. The process through which a series of media products derived from the same text is promoted in and through each other.
- 5. Within a text, visual or audio references are made to other texts. It is expected that audiences will recognise such references, although more obscure references will require different repertoires of experience in the audience
- 6. Different types of media products, such as films, TV programmes, magazines, radio programmes.