Glossary

Describe - say what you see in detail.

Analyse - Suggesting and interpreting typically in order to explain.

Caricature - A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated to be fun.

Naive - Lack of experience.

Subtle - low key not over the top. Example wearing a subtle outfit not to bring attention to yourself.

Genre - Generic Style or Category

Diegetic - Original sound

Avant Garde - New and experimental ideas in art, music, film and literature.

Aesthetic - Aesthetically pleasing - concerned with beauty or the appreciation for beauty.

Postmodern - A style where you mix different artistic styles or genres in film and media.

Hybrid - Two things combined together for example a hybrid car is half electric and half petrol.

Iconography - Typical images of a genre. What we expect to see in a genre for example in a Western Film, we expect tumbleweeds, desert, horses, saloon bars, et cetera. These are the genre indicators, the iconography

Icon - Used to describe someone you look up to as they are the best or a god. It was originally a painting of a god or someone who u worshipped.

Intertextuality - Taking and borrowing something to use in a music art or media piece.

Meticulous - Preparing or thinking carefully. Showing attention.

Parody - Make fun of. Taking the mickey.

Déjà vu - When you feel you have done or lived something before. In Film it is a scene that has already happened.

Ambiguous - Open to more then one interpretation.

Ambivalent - Mix feelings about something.

Anachronistic - Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed. Example world war 2 scene and someone is on a mobile phone.

Catch 22 - A Catch 22 Situation - A bind you can't get out of an impossible situation. Bad either way.

Barbaric - Extremely Cruel and possibly violent.

Omniscient All knowing and powerful.

Austerity - Squeezing the people income cutting everything.

(In) Coherent - (Unclear making no sense) Clear making sense. In media story have to be clear otherwise they are Incoherent.

Their - Object possession

There - In, at, or to that place or position.

They're - They are

Particularly - to a higher degree than is usual or average.

Eloquent - Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing.

Articulate - Express yourself. Having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.

Demonise - Portray as wicked and threatening.

Surreal - Feels like a dream (in film a poetic dreamlike production) psychedelic.

Demographic - Group of people. Relating to the structure of population.

Cathartic - The state you are in after a film that lets all your emotions out.

Doppleganger - An apparition or double of a living person.

Linear narrative - A Journey in a storyline for example in Little Red Riding hood from start to end you go on a journey.

Flashback - Going back to the past. In film this is shown with a slight change in look or colour.

Flash Forward - A glance into the future.

Problematic - In film a problematic is a plot and the problem that happens to make it more interesting.

Set Up - First 10 minutes of the film before something (the problem) happens.

Protagonist - Leading Character

Antagonist - The bad guy villain of the film.

Equilibrium - Balance in the story set up then by the end get back to the normal with the problem resolved.

Rational - Explaining why something should be done. Why it might be a good thing to do.

Irrational - Not logical or reasonable.

Aims - Target Aiming to do something

Objectives - What I need to do the steps to get there. Look back all the steps to get to the Aim.

Heterosexual - A person sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.

Sexism - Sexism means discrimination against people because of their sex: anything unfair to males or females, just because they're males or females, is an example of sexism.

Heterosexism - People thinking being straight is the only way to be.

Masculinity - Qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men for example men are tough and strong.

Toxic Masculinity - Men feeling they have to look or be tough and strong and feeling they cannot express emotion because a man shouldn't do that.

Femininity - Typical things woman do. Acting girly

Ideology - A set of beliefs you have. A system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

Codes and Conventions - What you expect to see.

Aesthetics - How we decide something is beautiful.

Stock Market - Market exchange. People buy shares of companies so they can use the money to do stuff.