Media Language overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Media Studies quiz

The literal, surface meaning of what is shown in a product

The cultural, associative meaning a signifier carries

The number of signs that appear in a single shot

The price an advertiser pays to place a sign in the media

An ancient story retold in a modern media product

A factual error that a producer has accidentally included

A second-order meaning where connotations naturalise a constructed idea as common sense

A signifier that has no signified attached to it

Disruption, equilibrium, repair, recognition, new equilibrium

Equilibrium, disruption, recognition, repair, new equilibrium

Recognition, disruption, equilibrium, new equilibrium, repair

Equilibrium, repair, disruption, recognition, new equilibrium

Because it defines what counts as normality and who may restore order

Because it always takes place in the final shot of a product

Because audiences ignore the ending and focus on the disruption

Because it is the cheapest part of the narrative to produce

Genres are fixed categories with unchanging rules

Genres are decided solely by film studios with no audience role

Genres are processes of repetition and difference

Genres disappear as soon as a product becomes popular

It prevents any product from ever being marketed

It brands products and reduces commercial risk through audience expectation

It guarantees every product will win an award

It removes the need to consider the audience at all

Through binary oppositions, where terms mean by contrast

Through the total absence of conflict in a text

Only through the use of expensive special effects

Through the alphabetical ordering of a product's credits

Counting how many characters appear in total

Listing the oppositions and stopping there

Reading which side of an opposition is privileged to reveal ideology

Ignoring conflict and focusing only on the setting

A faithful documentary record of a real event

A copy that has no original and refers only to other images

A signifier with a single fixed denotation

A genre convention repeated across many products

A condition where the mediated version feels more real than reality itself

A television programme filmed in very high resolution

A narrative with an unusually realistic ending

The literal denotation of an image in an advertisement

Denotation and connotation

Equilibrium and disruption

Repetition and difference

Intertextuality and pastiche

Naming the relevant set theory clearly

Defining a theory but failing to apply it to the resource

Reading connotation as well as denotation

Anchoring each point in a specific code

It has no connection to representation or ideology

It only matters for audience figures, not meaning

It is the means by which representations are constructed and ideology naturalised

It replaces representation entirely in the framework

It can never be applied to any television programme

It explains character psychology in complete detail

It must be adapted for serial, non-linear or open-ended forms

It only works for products made before the year 2000

The signifier is the physical form; the signified is the concept it evokes

The signifier is the concept; the signified is always an image

They are identical terms with no real difference

The signifier is the audience; the signified is the producer