Media+Conventions

= = 2. Media Conventions

__Review Terms__

 * 1) Text includes any work, object or event, be it written, oral, auditory, or visual, that communicates meaning to an audience.
 * 2) Audience plays an important role in media.
 * 3) Media is the plural of medium.
 * 4) Medium means the //tool used//, or method of delivery. In Visual Art, media include crayons, paint, pastels, clay. In English, media include print like newspaper and magazines, audio like radio, and visuals like film and television.
 * 5) Conventions are rules, or standards expected. For example consider this image:

This is an image of a conventional high school classroom. A person walking into a high school classroom expects to find desks. The desks should be in rows facing the front where the blackboard is located. Students sit in the desks and face the teacher. There are other items we could expect to find in this classroom. Think of a few. What are they? Where do they belong?

Here is an example of a media text:[[image:concert.jpg width="593" height="416"]]
This is an event. Specifically, what type of event is it? (concert) What are the **conventions**, the standard expected, the triggers, that tell you this is a concert? (Notice the milieu).

Here is another example of a media text:
What do you notice about this print text? Could you list the conventions of a newspaper front page?