Media Language

Media Language

Definition of Media Language

How the producers communicate the story's meaning into media is how they can create sense. Media language is how the purpose of a media text is conveyed to the audience.

Media producers use media language to create media products, and audiences use their understanding of media language to interpret and understand the messages being communicated. - Media producers encode their text with meaning - The audience decodes the text to understand the meaning.

• Media products are made up of images, words, and sounds. How they are put together depends on the platform used to distribute the product. 

Different forms use media language differently, and you should know how the platform and the state set up a template for production. 

Media Platform

- Print media

Uses text and images only. Such as newspapers like The Daily Mail.

- Broadcast (audio)

Audio products use music, sound effects, and the spoken word to communicate to the audience. Such as music audio like Radio Folklore 90.

- Broadcast (video)

Video products use images as well as sound. Video can use the spoken word as well as on-screen as required. Such as news bulletins like Euronews.

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene can be defined as the elements of cinema studies used in the film. 

Set Design

The time and location of the scene and how it represents the film's settings. The set design may be realistic as it looks in real life, to the point that it catches the audience's attention. The set design may have a connection within the genre to the narrative. 

Costume

The costume is the wardrobe and make-up that represent the character more from the movie, as they help to illustrate the era of the settings. Improving the roles in the film and allowing the audience to remember each movie's character. 

Prop

They're shortened from the property as they borrowed from the theatre. A prop is an object that helps the setting to go on with the action. They linked the plot of the narrative, effect relationship, or the cause; as Prop repeated, there might be a motif within the story's theme or moral. 

Staging and Composition

The visual composition represents the element arranged within the particular effect, including the frame's position or other details. The features may be the character or any props. It is called a looming frame that highlights the essential elements or figures and builds a relationship between personality and scene. 

Sound

Diegetic Sound

Dialogues or sounds from a particular object visible in the scene can be heard by the audience.

Non-Diegetic Sound

The sound that can build up a vibe in the location can be background music, mood music, and sound effects. 

Editing

Cut

The transition between one scene to another scene

Cross-cutting

Two stories line happened simultaneously.

Dissolve

Shot that overlaps the end of another

Reverse shot

Two characters in the exact location that filmed separately with different camera techniques

Iris

Flashback

Fade

Camera

Camera Shot

- Establishing shot

- Extreme Long shot

- Long shot / Wide shot

- Full shot

- Medium shot

- Medium Close-up

- Close-up

- Extreme Close-up

Camera Angles

- Overshot

- High Angle shot

- Eye-level

- Low angle

- Undershoot

Camera Movement

- Track/tracking

- Pan

- Tilt 

- Crane

- Dolly 

- Zoom

- Reverse Zoom