Media Studies A-Level
Selection and editing
What Selection and editing means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Selection and editing
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Reference: AQA
Choices that build a version of events, as when a news bulletin chooses which events to report and which images to show, or a reality television programme selects contestants and edits footage into a narrative.
Topics that use Selection and editing
- Theories of representation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience reception
- Audience understanding
- Consent versus coercion
- Constructed reality
- Distortion and omission
- Dominant ideology in media
- Evidence-based reading of representation
- Framing
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