Monday, 5 October 2009

Media deffinitions

- Anchorage is an description to define a an image

- Cropping is the cutting down and trimming of an image to fit into a space or to help enlarge features of the image.

- Semiotics is analysing signs and visual images to generate a cultural meaning.

- Juxtaposition is bringing to elements together for comparison.

- Mise-en-scene is an arrangement of all the elements in a scene such as props, facial expressions and setting.

- Homage when a director uses ideas, techniques of another to pay tribute to them for their brilliant ideas.

- Demographics are information concerning the social status, class, gender and age.

- Psychographics

- Binary opposition is classing two opposites in media. Good vs evil. Right vs wrong.

- Iconography is using elements of a scene to distinguish its genre.

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