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Monday, October 09, 2006

DICTIONARY CORNER!

Narrative:The story line and structure of a media text.Kidulthood follows a Tororovian narrative structure, other narrative theorists can also be applied to this text.

Predjudice:The pre- judging of an issue or social group, usually in a negative or stereotypical way.Youths are presented in the text may be pre- judged ina negative way due to stereotypes attatched to them.

Propp:Looked at familiar character roles which appear in texts.The characters of a hero and villian are present in this text.

Representation:The process whereby the media constructs versions of people, places and events in images, words or sound for transmission through media texts to an audience.My question relates to the representation of British youths in kidulthood, but also how accurate this representation is.

Sound effects:Enhanced sound added to a film or television programme during postproduction.The music used in this film is very significant as it represents the culture shown in this film.

Split screen:An editing technique which involves the cinema screen being split into two or more parts to allow the showing of events that are taking place at the same time.Split screen has been used in this text several times in order to show different things which are taking place at the same time, this is used to build up tension.

Trailer:A short teaser produced to advertise a new film.A trailer was produced in order to advertise 'Kidulthood.'

Low budget film:A film made with limited funds, without the backing of a major production company.Kidulthood was made with a low budget.

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