Media Series - TV
Analytical Toolkit


Media Language - Page 2
EDUQUAS

You will need to analyse television texts in terms of media language.
What would you expect to include for each of these headings?

Technical Codes

camera: angles, shots, movement, focus; lighting: position, key, contrast; audio codes; editing; FX

Visual Codes

costume, setting, colour palette, framing & proxemics - (mise-en-scène); performance and NVC

Genre

what type of programme it is, (setting, characters, repeated situations) narrative (the story, flashbacks, narration)