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Media Language

What is media language?
How the media through their forms, codes, techniques and connotations communicate meaning.

What is media representation?
How media portrays events, issues, individuals and social groups


Discuss the use of media language in creating narrative
composition- antagonists in the centre of the poster and the protagonists on the periphery 

How has media representation changed
Racism in the 1960 film has primarily white actors and one black actor and the 2016 version has a range of actors of all ethnicity.    

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