Media Studies A-Level
Masterplot
What Masterplot means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Masterplot
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Reference: AQA
A recurring, culturally familiar story pattern that audiences and producers recognise across many individual texts.
Topics that use Masterplot
- Narratology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience positioning through narrative
- Causality and event linkage
- Chronology versus causality
- Diegesis
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
- Narrating voice and source
- Narration
- Narrative function
Using Masterplot in the exam
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