Glossary of terms (MRANG) - Sarah

Term	Definition
Media Language	The language associated with camera, sound, mise en scene and editing techniques that help create meaning as to why the techniques have been used.
Representation	How social groups are represented in a film and how if they influence positive or negative stereotypes and connotations.
Audience	Who the film is targeted at and grouping them in demographics using criteria such as age, income, gender, regional identity etc.
Narrative	The order in which the events of a story are put into a plot of the film. Narratives can be linear, non-linear, multi-strand or circular. The narrative can be restricted or unrestricted meaning how the story is shown to the audience, whether it be hiding the information from them or where the audience knows more than the characters.
Genre	The conventions and repetition of certain ideas to group films and create a style. Syntactic and sematic codes also help define the genre.