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What is it?
This is the post-production process of making a moving image text, by the selection and ordering of a range of shots (the footage) into a continuous sequence. Editing can bring in audio (dialogue, score and sound effects), titles (credits) and still images.
Editing can help to enforce a theme, narrative or atmosphere, due to the pace and combination of elements selected. This could be through the use of a montage, the use of...
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Categories: Courses, A Level, WJEC A Level, WJEC A2, WJEC A2 Media Studies, WJEC AS, WJEC AS Media Studies, Film, Film Language, Key Concepts, Media Language, Theory, Semiotics
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Semiotics/Semiology
The study of signs that help us to deconstruct Media Texts
Signifier/Denotation
The physical form of the sign, without deeper meaning
Signified/Connotation
Meaning associated with the relationship between signifier and signified. Connotation is open to interpretation
Mythical Connotation
Meaning which is subjective interpretation, yet untrue
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