Form Styl and Convention

Form Styl and Conventions

To organise and structure the languages of media products forms, categories and conventions are used. They allow us to identify the genre, structure and micro elements of a text.

Form:

The form of a media text is its shape and structure and the combination of the ‘micro’ elements

Styl:

The style of a text is the way the text uses the form.

 Conventions:

Conventions are usually described as the ‘ingredients’ of a particular form or genre.

Task:

What conventions do the following media texts follow?

Game shows

Soaps

Sitcoms

Reality TV shows

What category, or genre, of text is it? How can you identify this?

This magazin tell about movies and speak something about what happenden behind the scin.

What can we learn from this text from its opening minutes or front cover?

Not so much. Of the cover is just a information that the joker very dangerous is and many people with a knife killed.

What codes and conventions does it follow or disobey?

This magazin is not how the other magazins standart. The Picture and the differents colours makes the cover very spezial.

What categories and conventions do we need to consider and use when making our own media text?

I think this magazin get very much attention, because the cover has so many differents colour and crazy images. How in advertising its all colourfull and crazy. And so it is also of this cover.