Media Terminology

SOCIAL REALISM
Filmmakers who draw attention to everyday conditions

INTERTEXTUALITY
The shaping of texts' meanings by other texts n
Media is formed and shaped by all media before
e.g. author transforming/ borrowing another text

NARRATIVE
Media terms of story telling (organised for a meaningful story) connected events

DIEGESIS
Story telling by a narrator who summarises events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts etc. of characters

IDEOLOGY
A world view, system of value, attitudes & beliefs held by individuals / groups or society to be true or important; shared by a culture or society about how they should function
View points

POSTMODERNISM
Looking at earlier style

OPPOSITIONAL READING
This is when the audience are in complete disagreement with the product's message or setting