Media Studies A-Level
Narrating voice and source
What Narrating voice and source means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Narrating voice and source
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The character's voice-over, unseen narrator, or camera and editing system that performs the telling, or in print and online texts the byline voice, captions and ordering of information.
Topics that use Narrating voice and source
- Narratology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience positioning through narrative
- Causality and event linkage
- Chronology versus causality
- Diegesis
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
- Narration
- Narrative function
- Narrative structure
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