An introduction to media

There are too key elements of media:

1. Macro elements 
2. Mirco elements 

                                       

Genre

Genre is the category of media products that are similar or differ to the rest of the film types. For example:

• Action

-Guns
-Muscular men
-City
-Fast cars
-Loads of money

• Thriller

-Jumpy
-Crime
-Money

• Horror

-Scary music
-Dead people
-Blood
-Killer

• Romance

-Couple

-Love

-Crazy ex

Narrative

1) Story = sequence of events
2) Narrative structure = way the events are shown

Linear = order they should be
Non linear = wrong order shown