Glossary of Definitions

Stereotype - A set idea about a certain group, place or thing that is widely believed.
Archetype - Somebody who is an example of a stereotype.

Mise en scene - everything that's in the scene.
Verisimilitude - How believable the scene is.
Convention - What we expect to see in a certain genre or medium
Medium - Which form of media it is e.g. a film, a television show, a magazine.
Diegetic sound - Sound that you can see the source of, or the source of is implied to be there.
Non - Diegetic sound - Sound that is not taking place in the scene e.g. a voiceover, music that have been added in after the scene
Purpose - What the main aim is for the media text e.g. to entertain
Tone - the mood of the media text e.g. informal, formal, humorous.
Synergy - The interaction or co-operation of two or more organisation
Production - Anything to do with the making of the film, including any post production.
Distribution - The way the film gets to the screens, via a distribution company
Marketing - Process of making awareness of a project's release - advertising
Exhibition - The way we view; getting the film to a viewing audience
Conglomerate - A company that owns several other companies
Cross media ownership - The ownership of multiple of multiple media businesses by a person or corporation
Media ownership - dominated by 6 big media corporations
Indie movies - movies produced by production companies apart from the big 6
Synergy - The interaction of two or more forces together makes a greater effect than the sum of their individual efforts.
Horizontal Integration - An arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
Horizontal integration -
A media franchise is a collection of media in which several derivative works have been produced from the original works of the media
Media convergence - The combing of two or more mediums
Proliferation -
Technological Convergence - When one particular device has many features other than its primary use