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What I've Learnt In Media Some of the things I learnt during my first week of media lessons include the three stages of production : pre-production (which includes things like casting and script writing),  production and post-production , that the largest film company in the world is an Indian company that are also known as "Bollywood" in Hollywood and other industries, and I learnt the 10 different media forms/industries which are: film, tv, advertising, interactive media, video games, publication, press, animation, photo imaging and radio. Genre + Key media terms The week after that I learnt some of the key terminology that is used when analysing a media text in terms of genre (which means "type" in French), and the words that I remembered the best are: Intertexuality - When a media text refers to another media text e.g. The Shining referencing the 1969 moon landing. Iconography - The things you'd expect to see in a certain genre e.g.