Media Studies - TV
Analytical Toolkit

Media Language Page 2

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

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

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

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