Media Studies - The Lego Movie terms

Which FOUR areas make up the theoretical framework to all parts of Media?

• Language, representation, industries and context.

• Representation, context, industry and convergence

• Language, representation, industries and audience.

• Industry, stereotype, audience and language.

Which of the following is used to classify films and DVDs by giving an age rating?

• VSC

• BBFC

• ASA

• PEGI

What's the correct order of the production process?

• Distribution, exhibition, production/ circulation

• Exhibition, distribution/ circulation, production

• Circulation, production, exhibition/ distribution

• Production, distribution, exhibition/ circulation

Who is responsible for the uses and gratifications theory?

• Vladimir Propp

• Bulmer and Katz

• Tzvetan Todorov

• Claude Levi-Strauss

What are the principles the Uses and Gratification theory?

• Equilibrium, disruption, recognition, repair and return to equilibrium

• Binary opposites

• Entertainment, personal identity, surveillance and social interaction

• Character types

What is the term for a large (often multinational) business or organisation that owns a number of different companies?

• Synergy

• Vertical integration

• Convergence

• Conglomerate

Who are the Big Six?

• 21st Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studio.

• 21st Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Sky and Walt Disney Studio.

• 21st Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, BBC, Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studio.

• 21st Century Fox, ITV, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studio.

Which films account for 83% of the North American market share and bring in billions of dollars in revenue each year?

• Action Films

• Independent

• Mainstream

• Rom-Coms

What is vertical integration?

• The way in which audiences can access a media product.

• Where a single company (or merged companies) controls both the production and the supply of a product.

• A film that can make large profits to support funding for other projects.

• The promotion of linked products across different areas of the media.

What are the conventions of a film poster?

• Film title, central image, tagline, release date, actors' names, credit block.

• Colours, text size, font, pictures.

• A5, A4, A3, A2

• On billboards, bus stops, social media and lamp posts.