Thursday, 6 September 2012

Key terms



Target audience
A Specified audience or demographic group for which an advertising message is designed.

Genre
French for 'type' i.e different types of film; horror, action, romance, comedy ect. Companies use codes and conventions to help signify the genre of the film. 

Conventions
A convention is simply something the producers use to represent the film genre. An example would be the action genre using explosions with explosions being the conventions so in an action movie you would expect to see and explosion. Another typical example would be a hero/villain, every action movie has the hero’s and the villains’ making that the convention so its something the audience is going to expect from a film being produced from a specific genre.

Codes
Technical codes, which include camera techniques, framing, depth of field, lighting and exposure and juxtaposition; symbolic codes, which refer to objects, setting, body language, clothing and colour; and written codes in the form of headlines, captions, speech bubbles and language styles.

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