This document provides an overview of key concepts for analyzing media texts, specifically moving images. It defines a text as any media product that can be analyzed for its meanings, such as films, TV shows, magazines, and websites. Textual analysis involves breaking down a text into its component parts and arrangements to understand why creators chose those elements. For moving images, this includes analyzing the narrative or non-narrative form, visual style through techniques like mise-en-scène, cinematography, and editing, as well as sound elements.

1. Media Analysis and Criticism (moving image media)

18. Shot scale: extreme long shot (ELS)

19. Shot scale: long shot (LS)

20. Shot scale: medium shot (MS)

21. Shot scale: medium close-up (MCU)

22. Shot scale: close-up (CU)

23. Shot scale: extreme close-up (ECU)

24. Angle: Straight

25. Angle: Low

26. Angle: High

27. Angle: Canted

33. Discontinuity Editing

34. Eyeline match/POV