Glossary

Mediation: the means by which, through the use of representation, a media organisation and its employees stand between an event and the public’s perception of that event.

·         Mediation involves the process of constructing, interpreting and editing material in accordance with the requirements of the chosen medium of communication.

Diegetic Sound: sound generated within a film narrative.

·         Non-Diegetic sound is outside the narrative such as an orchestra playing rousing music during a battle scene.

Verisimilitude: seeming to be like or to be connected to the real.

·         The term is important in many media genres because it determines the level of audience engagement and willingness to engage in suspension of disbelief.

Iconography: the distinguishing elements, in terms of props and visual details, which characterise a genre.

Indexical sign: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified (the meaning that is applied) e.g. smoke signifies fire.

Symbolism: Words that signify something e.g. Starbucks and coffee.

Ambient sound: Background sounds e.g. birds

• Foley-artificial
• Natural-real

Diegetic sounds: on screen sound

Non-diegetic sounds: off screen sound

Dialogue:Speech

Parallel sound: sound that fits the action/scene

Contraparallel sound: sound that doesn't fit what is on screen

Voice-over: Would be dialogue if it was spoken within the frame.

Aerial Shot-A shot taken from a crane, plane, or helicopter. Not necessarily a moving shot. Backlighting-The main source of light is behind the subject, silhouetting it, and directed toward the camera. Bridging Shot-A shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity.

Extreme long shot: A panoramic view of an exterior location photographed from a considerable distance, often as far as a quarter-mile away. May also serve as the establishing shot.

Fade in:A punctuation device. The screen is black at the beginning; gradually the image appears, brightening to full strength. The opposite happens in the fade out.   Fill light: An auxiliary light, usually from the side of the subject that can soften shadows and illuminate areas not covered by the key light.   Flashback: A scene or sequence (sometime an entire film), that is inserted into a scene in "present" time and that deals with the past. The flashback is the past tense of the film.   Flash-forward: On the model of the flashback, scenes or shots of future time; the future tense of the film.   Focus: The sharpness of th image. A range of distances from the camera will be acceptably sharp. Possible to have deep focus, shallow focus.

Focus in, focus out: a punctuation device whereby the image gradually comes into focus or goes out of focus.

Pan:(abbreviation of panorma) Movement of the camera from left to right or right to left around the imaginary vertical axis that runs through the camera.