Unit 4: Terms and Language

Agenda-  A secret plan or motivation that causes someone to act in a certain way

Archival footage- Film footage taken from another, previously recorded, source

Annotated bibliography- A list of sources used in research along with comments or summaries about each source.

Conventions Standard features, practices, and forms associated with the way something is usually done.

Documentary- A genre of filmmaking that provides a visual record of actual events photographs, video footage, and interviews.

Media- Collectively refers to the organizations that communicate information to the public

Media channel- A method an organization uses to communicate, such as radio, television, website, newspaper or magazine.

Primary footage- film footage shot by the filmmaker for the text at hand

Eyewitness account- a description given by someone who was present at an event.

Confirmation bias- the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

Logical fallacy- A statement that is false because it is based on an error in reasoning.

Rhetorical/emotional slanters- A rhetorical device used to present a subject in a biased way.

Faulty analogy- This fallacy consists in assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect.

Straw man- he misrepresentation of an opponent's position or a competitor's product to tout one's own argument or product as superior. This fallacy occurs when the weakest version of an argument is attacked while stronger ones are ignored.

slippery slope- involves an acceptance of a succession of events without direct evidence that this course of events will happen.

Post hoc reasoning- The first event necessarily caused the second when one event happens after another.