Across
- 4. This shot is even closer than the last one, and creates an image larger than the eye would usually see.
- 6. The process through which a series of media products derived from the same text is promoted in and through each other.
- 8. A shot that shows a character from the waist up. An alternative to this shot is a two shot (includes two people) and a three shot (includes three people).
- 9. 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
- 11. This shot, like the Establishing Shot also sets up the scene through showing key signifiers, however, whilst the Establishing Shot leans towards showing the setting and location, the Master Shot contains the main characters for the length of the shot.
- 12. 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
- 13. 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.
- 14. This shot is taken from the view of the person looking / speaking. POV may be literal (as in this image) or it may be implied when, for example, a character looks off-screen and we then see what they are looking at.
- 15. 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.
- 16. This shot is taken from ‘over the shoulder’ of a character and is often used to make the audience feel as though they are actually included in the conversation / action. It is a form of point of view (POV) shot.
- 17. This shot shows images in ‘life size’ in the context of the distance between the cinema screen and the image: for example, the height of a child might appear to be 3-4 feet. Usually this contains a full body shot.
- 18. 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).
Down
- 1. This shot shows a part of something, for example, someone’s face and is used to draw attention to the thing / person or emotions.
- 2. The capacity to extend the life of characters, settings or trademarks by producing further products, usually in popular genres such as super-hero or action.
- 3. 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.
- 5. Different types of media products, such as films, TV programmes, magazines, radio programmes.
- 7. Used to set the scene or as an establishing shot, often outside. This shot can be taken from as far away as a quarter of a mile.
- 10. 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).