MILseries: Ep04 Media & Information Languages
Summary
TLDRIn this episode of the MIL (Media and Information Literacy) series, the speaker explores the concept of media and information languages. They explain how information can be conveyed not only through words but also through images, symbols, codes, and technical aspects like camera angles and sound. The video dives into the types of media codes—symbolic, written, and technical—and their impact on communication. Additionally, the speaker discusses media conventions and the role of audiences and producers in shaping media messages. The episode encourages viewers to critically analyze media content rather than passively consume it.
Takeaways
- 🎬 Media language refers to the codes, conventions, symbols, and narrative structures that communicate meaning in media content.
- 🖼️ Information can be conveyed not only through words but also through images, videos, and symbols.
- 📝 Symbolic codes use symbols or semiotics (e.g., colors, objects) to convey underlying meanings, like a red rose symbolizing love.
- 📚 Written codes involve the use of language, style, and layout to communicate meaning, like headlines and captions in newspapers.
- 📷 Technical codes use equipment like cameras, lighting, and sound to tell stories, such as different camera shots and angles in films.
- 🔄 Codes are categorized into three types: symbolic (using symbols), written (using text), and technical (using equipment).
- 🎞️ Conventions refer to norms or standards in media, such as having a title at the beginning of a film and credits at the end.
- 📜 Story conventions involve common narrative structures like setting, conflict, and resolution, which guide storytelling.
- 📺 Genre conventions are tropes and themes that audiences expect from specific genres, like blood in horror movies.
- 👥 The audience is the group of people who consume media content, while producers are those who create it, including directors, writers, and editors.
Q & A
What is 'media language' as described in the script?
-Media language refers to the codes, conventions, formats, symbols, and narrative structures that communicate meaning to an audience through different forms of media.
What are the three types of codes used in media?
-The three types of codes used in media are symbolic codes, technical codes, and written codes.
Can you explain symbolic codes in media?
-Symbolic codes involve the use of symbols or objects to convey meaning. For example, a red rose might symbolize love or romance, and colors like red, yellow, and green may have different meanings in different contexts.
What is the role of technical codes in media?
-Technical codes are used to tell a story through the use of equipment, such as cameras, lighting, sound, and editing. For example, camera angles and shots like close-ups or extreme long shots help convey emotions or settings.
How are written codes used in media?
-Written codes involve the use of language, textual layouts, headlines, captions, and speech bubbles to convey messages. For example, headlines in newspapers emphasize important information with larger font sizes.
What are the different camera shots mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions several camera shots, including extreme long shots, full shots, close-ups, extreme close-ups, and over-the-shoulder shots. Each shot serves to emphasize different elements of the scene, such as the setting or a character's emotions.
What are conventions in media, and what are the three types?
-Conventions are standard or accepted ways of doing things in media. The three types are form conventions, story conventions, and genre conventions.
What are story conventions?
-Story conventions refer to common narrative structures and elements in storytelling, such as settings, conflicts, and resolutions that are typical in many stories.
What are genre conventions in media?
-Genre conventions are specific elements like tropes, characters, settings, or themes that are typically associated with a particular genre, such as horror or romance.
Who are the 'audience' and 'producers' in media, according to the script?
-The audience refers to the group of people who consume media content, while producers are those involved in creating the content, such as directors, writers, and editors.
Outlines
🎬 Introduction to Media and Information Languages
In this section, the host welcomes the audience to episode 4 of the MIL (Media and Information Literacy) series. The main topic is introduced: media and information languages. The host emphasizes how information can be communicated not just through words but through various media formats such as pictures, videos, and symbols. These different forms of media content provide ways for people to understand messages using media language. The audience is encouraged to think about how media communicates through codes, symbols, and conventions.
🧠 Understanding Media Language and Its Components
This paragraph explores the concept of media language, explaining that it consists of codes, conventions, formats, symbols, and narrative structures. These elements help media convey messages to the audience. The host explains how media uses signs to create meaning, citing films as an example where codes help audiences interpret content such as genre (e.g., horror, romance). The audience learns that codes can be symbolic, technical, or written, each conveying different meanings depending on context.
💡 Symbolic Codes: The Power of Symbols
The host explains symbolic codes, which convey messages through symbols or signs. Symbolic codes include objects, settings, body language, clothing, and colors that convey deeper meanings beneath the surface. Examples like a red rose (symbolizing love) or traffic lights (red for stop, green for go) help illustrate how symbols are interpreted differently in various communities or groups. Colors, objects, and gestures are key tools in communicating through symbolic codes.
📝 Written Codes: The Importance of Text in Media
Written codes are discussed here, focusing on the use of text, language style, and layout in media. The host explains how elements like headlines, captions, and speech bubbles shape the way media communicates. Examples from newspapers and comic strips demonstrate how font size, layout, and speech or thought bubbles deliver specific messages to the audience. Written codes are essential for creating structure and clarity in textual media content.
📷 Technical Codes: Using Equipment to Tell the Story
The focus shifts to technical codes, which include the use of equipment like cameras, lighting, and sound to tell stories. Camera angles, shots, lighting, and sound are all technical elements that contribute to the tone and meaning of media content. The host explains how technical aspects like extreme long shots, close-up shots, and music scores enhance the emotional experience, with examples from horror movies illustrating how these codes establish mood and atmosphere.
🎥 Camera Shots and Angles: Creating Visual Impact
This section goes into detail about different types of camera shots and angles used in filmmaking. Techniques like extreme long shots, wide shots, and close-ups are used to emphasize specific aspects of a scene or character. The host explains how camera shots and angles affect the way a story is told, with long shots establishing settings and close-ups revealing emotional details. The use of high and low angles is also discussed, with high angles suggesting inferiority and low angles conveying power.
🎞️ Camera Movements: Dynamic Storytelling
Camera movements like panning, tilting, and tracking are introduced as tools to follow the action or set the scene. The host explains how these movements, such as panning horizontally to follow a subject or tilting vertically to show height, are essential in engaging the audience. Techniques like the point of view (POV) shot and handheld shots allow viewers to see from a character's perspective, making the storytelling more immersive.
📜 Conventions in Media: Rules and Norms
This paragraph discusses media conventions, which are established rules or norms in media production. These conventions guide how codes are used in different types of media, such as films having titles at the beginning and credits at the end. Three types of conventions are explained: form conventions (arrangement of media elements), story conventions (common narrative structures like conflict and resolution), and genre conventions (expectations for specific genres like horror). These conventions shape how media is produced and consumed.
🎭 The Role of Audience and Producers
The final section highlights the relationship between media producers and the audience. Producers (directors, writers, editors) create media content, while audiences are the consumers who interpret and engage with it. The host reminds the audience to critically analyze media messages, recognizing that codes and conventions have different meanings based on context. The importance of understanding media languages is emphasized, encouraging viewers to think critically about the information they receive.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Media Language
💡Codes
💡Symbolic Codes
💡Technical Codes
💡Written Codes
💡Conventions
💡Story Conventions
💡Genre Conventions
💡Camera Angles
💡Audience
Highlights
Introduction to media and information languages.
Information can be distributed in various formats, not just through words but also images and videos.
Media language consists of codes, conventions, symbols, and narrative structures that convey meaning.
Symbolic codes are used to convey meaning beneath the surface, such as colors or objects like a red rose symbolizing love.
Written codes include language style, headlines, and captions, commonly seen in newspapers and comics.
Technical codes use equipment like camera angles, shots, and lighting to convey meaning.
Symbolic codes: use of symbols and semiotics (e.g., red light for stop, green for go).
Written codes: use of language in headlines, captions, and speech bubbles.
Technical codes: use of sound, camera angles, lighting, and special effects (e.g., horror movie soundscapes).
Conventions are rules or norms that govern behavior in media.
There are three types of conventions: form conventions (e.g., title at the beginning), story conventions (narrative structure), and genre conventions.
Audience is an important element; it refers to the group of people exposed to media content.
Producers are the creators of media content, including directors, writers, and editors.
Different camera shots, such as long shots or close-ups, are used to convey emotions or establish context in media.
Media codes and languages send different messages to the audience, which need to be analyzed critically.
Transcripts
[Music]
hey
yo what's up hi so hello hello hello my
loves
this is mom agave and welcome to my mil
series
episode 4. for the episode 4 of my mil
series
we will be discussing about the media
and information languages
so without further ado let's get started
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immediate information language
information can be distributed through
various formats or in various ways
not just through words phrases or
sentences
they can be delivered through pictures
or images videos if you're a fan of
movies or watching movies or if you have
friends who are into movie reviews
there are times
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oh my god
so those are the things that we often
notice
if you are literate with the terms or
the technicalities
in making a media content especially in
filmmaking
media and information language when we
say language
language is the method of human
communication either spoken or written
consistently of the use of words in a
structured and conventional way
in the philippines we understand each
other because of a certain language
our national language which is filipino
but in the context of media and
information we understand media contents
because
of what we call the media language media
language
are codes conventions formats symbols
narrative structures that indicate the
meaning of medium messages to an
audience
so it is the way how media communicates
to the audience through the use of codes
conventions
or symbols and such communicate but
a message your media source are you
media
itself for example how does a film send
you the message
how would you know if that movie is
from a movie poster for example how
would you know or how would you assume
that that movie is a horror movie
a movie about love killing twitter movie
and such producers send the message
to the people through the use of codes
conventions
so what are codes and conventions
codes are systems of signs that create
meaning so if they are put together they
create meaning
the process of that certain symbol or
that or that certain
code it already sends a message so there
are
three types of codes we have the
symbolic technical codes
and the written codes so what are the
differences among these
three types of codes first is the
symbolic code
so a symbolic code with the word itself
symbolic the message is sent
through symbols or semiotics
symbolic codes show what is beneath the
surface of what we see
for example objects setting body
language clothing color etc
or iconic symbols that are easily
understood for example we have a red
rose what does a red rose symbolize to
you
a red rose may symbolize love romance
a clinched fist
the interpretation of these symbols they
vary in different communities or in
different groups for example
for some young the duterte fist
sign what do the colors in traffic light
symbolize
for example we have the the red the red
is stop the yellow is ready
and then the green one says it's go
the bayon colors are different
symbolisms
our marriage and different meanings
yellow for some it is happy
red love or blood green nature
black darkness or horror or death
when we say symbolic codes they use
symbols or objects to represent a
meaning
symbol
second type is the written code even
codes
we have the use of language style and
textual layout
headlines captions speech bubbles
language style
and etc example in the newspaper
pinakamala import
is what we call the headline the font
size of
the body the article itself should be
smaller let's emphasize nathan jung
headline
also we have the use of speech bubbles
especially in comic strips
our speech bubbles are used for spoken
words or dialogues
meanwhile we have the thought bubble
humongous clouds clouds
the thought bubble is used if the
character
is thinking of that certain line
our third type of code is the technical
codes technical codes are ways in which
equipment is used to tell the story
this includes sound camera angles types
of shots and lighting
as well as field lighting exposure and
juxtaposition
so technical codes it is where we use of
the equipment compared to
symbolic codes wherein you use objects
hearing technical codes make use of the
lighting the camera angles the camera
shots
and sending a message for example in a
horror movie
champlain horoscope
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music scoring wherein you make use of
the music or the sounds to establish the
tone
or the mood of the media content for
example in a horror movie
of course you will need yuma creeping
among sound effects for example
crickets intense
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in technical codes you will be using
camera shots
and angles we have different kinds of
shots an example is the extreme long
shot
extreme long shot covers a wide wide
area thus framing the subject
including a vest among its surroundings
so extreme by snapping editing steam
like sabrang
over over so
landscape seascape also we have the full
shot
or the whole body shot where you can see
the whole body of
the character
both extreme long shots and the long
shot or the
wide shot can be used as an establishing
shot
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it is commonly used for newscasting or
interviews because
it directs the viewers to the subject
another is the close-up shot blast shot
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close-up shot it is a tight framing of a
person or an object so this is often
used to highlight the details
of your subject such as eye movement
yeah mannerism is minimal yet impactful
momentum
another esima extreme close-up
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close up shot it frames the subject very
tightly
at the most detailed close-up shot you
can see the emotions
of the character or the subject the
extreme close-up shot you can see the
details for example
you focus on the eyes of the character
to establish the tears also we have
different kinds of shots like the over
the shoulder shot which is mostly used
for dialogues and the reverse shot
probably
over the shoulder shot then we have the
insert shot
young insert shot for example
character young he or she is checking
the time
so of course
we also have the angles the camera
angles to remind yourselves about
different movies that you have watched
or if you are going to watch another
movie please
remember this code so that you know the
true meaning behind
the use of those cinematographic codes
we have the high angle shot so it is
used to establish
inferiority it
now we have the low angle shot which is
used
to empower the subject always remember
that an
interpretation of these codes will
always be subjective
it will depend on the viewer's
background
we also have camera movements so you're
gonna get it mostly in videography or in
filmmaking we have panning
panning is often used to follow subject
movements or in establishing the
setting of the scene you move the camera
horizontally
meanwhile tilting is used similarly as
panning but the camera moves up and down
so vertical shock
panning tilting
we also have a dolly or tracking to
usually use for emphasis
or to show an entrance movement buggy
subject that will move
now we have the point of view or the
handheld shot
it makes the footage more engaging
because the audience takes a character's
view
at the young you allow the audience to
be in place
to be in the situation of the character
so are you
three types of codes we have again
symbolic
technical and the written codes so
symbolic you use
of course symbols written you use text
or language and the technical you use
equipment now let us move on to
conventions convention refers to a
standard or norm that acts as rule
governing behavior
conventions are generally established
and accepted ways of doing
something so meron tayung three types of
convention we have the foreign
convention
toy convention and the genre conventions
so informed conventions these are
certain ways to expect types of media
codes
to be arranged in films there should be
a title at the beginning and credits at
the end
newspapers have a mastect headline and
different sections
so you form conventions it is
media now we have story conventions
historic inventions are
common narrative structures and
understandings that are common in
storytelling media products um settings
my own client marks my conflict my
resolution
that is a story convention and the third
is the genre convention
genre conventions are common use of
tropes
characters settings or themes in a
particular type of medium so
genre conventions are closely linked
with audi's expectations
that a certain movie is a horror movie
so the pat meron use of blood pata
vida the new expectation leaders of
philippines
we also have the audience so the
audience is the group of people who are
exposed
to the media content sileon consumer
meanwhile we have the producers shempre
sileno
produce we have the directors the
writers the editors
they are the people engaged in the
process of making or creating the media
content
to make a finished media product while
we have the stakeholders
or the libraries archives museums
internet
and other relevant information providers
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so that is it yo guys and i hope that
you have learned something from me today
and sana next mean krishna mayas so let
us not just
receive information let us analyze first
the media codes and languages because
media has different meanings or
different messages that they want to
send to the
audience thank you so much and i hope i
will see you
next time
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