Eduqas A-Level Media Studies media language overview quiz quiz

The literal, obvious first-order meaning of a sign

The particular font and typeface used in a headline

The suggested, cultural meaning a sign carries

The order in which shots are arranged in an edit

A traditional folk story handed down through a culture over time

A particular type of camera angle used to mythologise a subject

An untrue or fabricated news story circulated by the press

A connotation repeated until it feels natural, carrying ideology

Text that fixes one preferred meaning of an image

A heavy object placed within the frame to weight it

The genre and category to which a product belongs

A piece of non-diegetic sound layered over the image

Beginning, complicated middle, and resolved end

Equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium

The hero, the villain and the helpful donor

Denotation, connotation and naturalised myth

The sheer speed and pace of the editing throughout

The total number of characters featured in the story

Binary oppositions, with one side usually privileged

The dominant colour palette used across the product

A fixed, rigid set of rules every product must follow

A simple list of the camera angles used in a product

The target audience a product has been made for

A process working through repetition and difference

Reworking a proven formula helps manage economic risk

It removes the industry's need to market products at all

It guarantees that the product will win critical awards

It makes the finished products much cheaper to distribute

A documentary that faithfully records real events

A copy with no original, referring only to other signs

A particular type of print layout used in magazines

A binary opposition between two opposing narrative forces

A very detailed and convincingly realistic image

A high-definition broadcast with very sharp picture quality

The mediated feeling more real than the real it represents

An exaggerated, sensationalised news headline in the press

Typography choices

Cover line text

Masthead design

Camera angle

Diegetic comes from the world of the text, non-diegetic is added over it

Diegetic sound is always loud, while non-diegetic sound is always quiet

Diegetic sound is always music, while non-diegetic sound is always dialogue

There is no real difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound

Describing the look of the product in close detail with no theory applied

Naming a theory, applying it to specific features and reaching a judgement

Listing every media code present without analysing or evaluating any of them

Summarising the plot and content of the product instead of its media language