COMM1020 Lecture Notes - Media Studies, Committee For Accuracy In Middle East Reporting In America
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Interpretation and identification: emotional experiences and (dis) pleasure of being in someone else"s shoes . Identification vs. point of view : identification in terms of media studies is much more of a process it"s something people do and is made up of visual elements. Identification = visual techniques + storytelling devices + personal participation: we bring characters to life by lending a bit of ourselves to figures on screen. Form and style: syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic choices, syntagmatic = what order you put the sentence in, paradigmatic = what you choose to put in the sentence the vertical axis. Impact how your story is told and what type of meanings are made possible. Identifying with the camera: cinematography (camera angles, distance, movement, editing putting different things that come from the camera in a certain order, sound, constantly repositioning viewer from shot to shot, scene to scene.
