Media language is how you create meaning, using technical skills such as sound, camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. You need to explain, using examples (one from each technical area at least), how you created meaning and how successfully this was accomplished (use feedback to evaluate your success). See the 'key terms' tab on this blog for technical terminology that you can use.
"Media language refers to the ways in which media producers make meaning in ways that are specific to the medium in which they are working and how audiences come to be literate in ‘reading’ such meaning within the medium. For example, the ‘language of film’, print layout conventions, web design and navigation conventions in gaming. These medium specific languages will often be closely connected to other media concepts such as genre or narrative and candidates are at liberty to make such connections to a greater or lesser extent in their answers." (OCR)
If you are writing about film language in a trailer then the following links will be useful:
http://howardschoolmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/analysing-trailer.html
http://howardschoolmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/synergy-a2-evaluations.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/language_of_film.html
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