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Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production
Quick questions on Media conventions: genre, form and story in VCE Media
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What is conventions create expectation?Show answer
The core idea is expectation. A convention is a promise the text makes to the audience. When a horror film dims the lighting and slows the score, the audience expects a scare; the convention has primed them. Creators use this in two ways: they satisfy the expectation to reassure and orient the audience, or they deliberately break it to surprise, unsettle or comment.
What are writing about conventions?Show answer
Name the convention type, state the expectation it creates, and explain whether the creator meets, combines or subverts it and to what effect on the audience. When you cross forms, point to a form convention that exists in one form and not the other, and explain why the form's mode of consumption produced it.
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