Year 12 · VCE / Media
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Media
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- Media narrative
- Codes (in media)
- Key distinction: codes versus narrative conventions
- Symbolic codes
- Mise en scene
- Setting as a symbolic code
- Costume as a symbolic code
- Props / objects as symbolic codes
- Acting and performance as a symbolic code
- Colour as a symbolic code
- Technical codes
- Shot distance (framing scale)
- Camera angle
- Camera movement
- Depth of field and focus
- High-key versus low-key lighting
- Three-point lighting
- Editing as a technical code
- Continuity editing
- Montage editing
- Cross-cutting (parallel editing)
- Editing pace
- Transitions between shots
- Composition and framing
- Written codes
- Dialogue as a written code
- Voice-over narration
- On-screen text and titles
- Audio codes
- Diegetic sound
- Non-diegetic sound
- Score / soundtrack
- Sound motif
- Sound effects and foley
- Silence as an audio code
- Shot / reverse shot
- How should you write about codes 'working together'?
- Narrative conventions
- Story versus plot
- Narrative structure
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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