New Media Genres

1. Diversity of media genres

2. Functions of media genres

3. Aspects of Radio Play Analysis

4. Aspects of Film and Television Analysis

Generic classification of individual programmes

• medium: print medium; acoustic medium; audiovisual medium

• main function of medium: report; reflection; appeal; game; reproduction

• thematic specifics: thematizing a milieu (for example, hospital, drug scene); topic-/story-oriented (for example, crime, sport)

• relation of medium to reality:

- with reference to people: credible/not credible (for example, news reader versus emotional witness);

- with reference to statements: true/false, factual/non-factual, fictitious;

- with reference to time: live, recorded or anticipatory presentation

Areas of enquiry in the analysis of radio plays

1. WORD

2. VOICE

3. MUSIC

4. NOISE

5. SILENCE

6. STEREOPHONIC SOUND

7. DISTANCE

8. RADIOPHONIC EFFECTS

Aspects of Film and Television Analysis

Main characteristics of the hybrid genre are:

• concentration on acoustic/visual units of 30 to 90 seconds (sound-vision bytes)

• the integration of elements from a variety of genres

• the incorporation of a variety of non-linear, overlapping plot structures

• loose ends in the final episode of the series

• a relatively clear structure of episodes and plots as well as repeated transmission of the same information

• a carefully-timed alternation between periods of suspense and emotional climaxes

• focus on reception-oriented aesthetics

Approaches towards the study of films

• Biographical

• Psychological

• Sociological

• Structuralist

• Hermeneutic

• Deconstructionist

• Feminist

Main factors in film analysis

• story

• narrative mode

• image

• sound

Representation of space:

mechanical space and narrative space

‘mechanical space' refers to the space that is visible in the film

'narrative space’ is constructed by the viewer on the basis of these fragments to form the location in the fictional world where the action takes place

Multimedial channels used for communicating information in film

Date: 2014-12-29; view: 1018