1. Story & Production elements
Year 9 Media Studies

2. Story elements

3. Multiple storylines
Includes the plot (main storyline) and subplots (other stories that add to the story / tv show).

4. Cause and effect
One event starts the story which causes something else to happen. (effect)

5. character
Characters are introduced/established then they are developed.
There are also relationships between characters and character motivations – what drives them. (power, love, money, etc)

6. Production elements

7. Camera techniques
Movement
Shot type
Angle
Focus

8. acting
Facial expressions, voice delivery, posture & gesture.

9. Mise en scene
French word meaning ‘everything in the shot’ refers to visual composition
How props, actors lighting, etc is used in a shot.

10. editing
cutting & putting together of vision and sound to make a story.

11. lighting
can be bright (high key) or dark & shadowy (low key). It can also be used to tell the audience about characters.

12. sound Music, dialogue & sound effects. It can be:
diegetic – sounds the characters can hear
non-diegetic sounds the audience can hear but the characters can’t.
Sad music during a break up scene.