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A Level Media Studies Exam Compilation Q&A Bundle
This bundle is crafted to aid students in mastering essential concepts, theories, and analysis techniques required for success in their media studies examinations.
[Meer zien]This bundle is crafted to aid students in mastering essential concepts, theories, and analysis techniques required for success in their media studies examinations.
[Meer zien]Aberrant reading - the interpretation of a text in a manner different from the way its 
author intended it to be decoded. For example, people who think that severus snape 
from harry potter is cool and desirable, rather than cruel and bullying. 
Alternative - outside or on the edge of the mainstre...
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In winkelwagenAberrant reading - the interpretation of a text in a manner different from the way its 
author intended it to be decoded. For example, people who think that severus snape 
from harry potter is cool and desirable, rather than cruel and bullying. 
Alternative - outside or on the edge of the mainstre...
Consumption Explores the way in which the media text is used by audiences for 
pleasure but also explores the rise of user generated content across several platforms. 
Distribution This refers to all processes linked to delivering the media product to 
audiences both through tangible (disc) and di...
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In winkelwagenConsumption Explores the way in which the media text is used by audiences for 
pleasure but also explores the rise of user generated content across several platforms. 
Distribution This refers to all processes linked to delivering the media product to 
audiences both through tangible (disc) and di...
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Steve Neale's Genre Theory A theory which suggests two things about genre. 
1) Audiences enjoy specific texts because of "repetition and difference" of the 
repertoires of genre elements used. For example an audience might enjoy a film 
because it is a typical action film which uses all the nor...
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In winkelwagenSteve Neale's Genre Theory A theory which suggests two things about genre. 
1) Audiences enjoy specific texts because of "repetition and difference" of the 
repertoires of genre elements used. For example an audience might enjoy a film 
because it is a typical action film which uses all the nor...
Epochs An important period of time (McLuhan) 
 
What are McLuhan's four periods of "media?" - Oral world 
- Literate world 
- Gutenberg Galaxy 
- Electronic Media 
 
Media Ecology The study of media as environments and environments as media (Strate 2017) 
 
Primary Orality (Ong 1982) 
A world whe...
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In winkelwagenEpochs An important period of time (McLuhan) 
 
What are McLuhan's four periods of "media?" - Oral world 
- Literate world 
- Gutenberg Galaxy 
- Electronic Media 
 
Media Ecology The study of media as environments and environments as media (Strate 2017) 
 
Primary Orality (Ong 1982) 
A world whe...
What is Mise-en-scene? And what is the acronym to remember it? Mise-en-scene is 
the action of putting on to stage. We remember Mise-en-scene by using the acronym 
CLAMPS. Costume, Lighting, Actors, Makeup, Props and Setting. 
What is a Multi-Strand narrative? Multi-strand is telling a story from ...
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In winkelwagenWhat is Mise-en-scene? And what is the acronym to remember it? Mise-en-scene is 
the action of putting on to stage. We remember Mise-en-scene by using the acronym 
CLAMPS. Costume, Lighting, Actors, Makeup, Props and Setting. 
What is a Multi-Strand narrative? Multi-strand is telling a story from ...
Pastiche (postmodernism) a cinematic device that honors the cinematography of 
another filmmaker through the imitation of specific scenes or iconic moments in the 
movie 
Spectacle (postmodernism) watching someone do something we didn't know 
humans could do (something impressive or striking). M...
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In winkelwagenPastiche (postmodernism) a cinematic device that honors the cinematography of 
another filmmaker through the imitation of specific scenes or iconic moments in the 
movie 
Spectacle (postmodernism) watching someone do something we didn't know 
humans could do (something impressive or striking). M...
Semiotics The study of signs 
Signifier The signifier is any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a 
facial expression, an image. 
The part of the sign that signposts the object (Saussure) 
Signified The signified is the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated by the 
signifier...
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In winkelwagenSemiotics The study of signs 
Signifier The signifier is any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a 
facial expression, an image. 
The part of the sign that signposts the object (Saussure) 
Signified The signified is the concept, the meaning, the thing indicated by the 
signifier...
Structuralism A body of study or theory that discusses how societies, cultural 
practices and artefacts (such as media texts) can be analysed as signifying systems or 
languages (how different media texts are presented to a consumer) 
Semiotics the study of signs and symbols and their use or inter...
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In winkelwagenStructuralism A body of study or theory that discusses how societies, cultural 
practices and artefacts (such as media texts) can be analysed as signifying systems or 
languages (how different media texts are presented to a consumer) 
Semiotics the study of signs and symbols and their use or inter...
Encode messages and meaning placed within products 
Decode audience interprets message 
Close ups create emotion and tension 
Extreme close ups create suspense or draw attention to something 
Long shots provide more information about character/situation 
Medium close ups taken from the chest up 
Est...
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In winkelwagenEncode messages and meaning placed within products 
Decode audience interprets message 
Close ups create emotion and tension 
Extreme close ups create suspense or draw attention to something 
Long shots provide more information about character/situation 
Medium close ups taken from the chest up 
Est...
ffects Theory A group of social scientists called the Frankfurt School that studied 
the power of the mass media. 
Hypodermic Needle Theory Audiences passively receive information from media 
texts without any attempt on their part to process or challenge it. 
Moral Panic The intensity of feeling ...
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In winkelwagenffects Theory A group of social scientists called the Frankfurt School that studied 
the power of the mass media. 
Hypodermic Needle Theory Audiences passively receive information from media 
texts without any attempt on their part to process or challenge it. 
Moral Panic The intensity of feeling ...
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