T.V. Industry
Component 2 Section A
TV Industry
Will / can cover every topic - audience, industry representation etc
"Humans and Les Revenants"
"In this section you will be analysing the TV industry with reference to media language, representation, industry, and audience"
Plan:
Genre hybridity
Stereotypes / racial and exoticism
Representations
Purpose of media languagee
Multiple meanings
Polysemy od Les Revenants (poetic, hybridity, fluidity)
Challenging Ideology of Humans
Encode / decode
Target audience (niche / mass)
Key Scenes (opening of both)
Media language is a broad umbrella term for anything that can be applied through a media product that can be used to create meaning, represent audiences, create genre and so on and so forth. Media language is used within products to create iconographies and different 'rules' that we can subconsciously apply to our thought process, helping us to relate to products, and helping the producers to appeal to a wider audience, and make more profit in the process. Examples of media language include mise-en-scene, shot types, dress codes etc. Furthermore, media products which encode multiple meanings within their texts are often referred to as polysemic texts. In this response I will discuss how the television shows 'Humans' and 'Les Revenants' both incorporate media language, genre hybridity, and polysemy within their respective texts. I will also explore why producers have included media language. 'Humans' is a 2015 show that is a remake of the 2012 Swedish show, 'Real Humans'. It was released on Channel 4. The show was widely positively received. 'Les Revenants' is a French television show, produced and distributed by Canal+, released in 2012, although it was aired in the U.K. on Channel 4 in 2013.
Les Revenants opening scene:
Expositions shots
Non-diegetic sound, soft piano
Diegetic sound of bus and chattering
Panning shots, one take
Suspenseful music
Surreal elements . butterfly breaking the glass and flying away
Genre polysemy - Sci-Fi from the lights going out as she walks off, mystery from the cutaway after the bus crash, horror from the crash itself. Could also hint to French Poetic Realism
Soundtrack created by Mogwai, band with a small and niche fanbase, this also establishes the show as being quite indie.
After the suspense of the crash and release, the shots are slow, featuring panning. The hermeneutic code that is present after this creates more mystery and suspense.
Diegetic sound of screams - Encodes genre hybridity through representing generic paradigms of the horror convention.
Cutaway after the crash - butterfly reanimating and coming back - foreshadowing with what happens with Camille on the bus - symbolic code for how the characters will come back to life.
Lexis - 'Aujord Hui' - Today - Shows the current linear narrative, which will then be broken later on by the different timelines, flashbacks, etc.
Butterfly breaking the glass - symbolic of the fourth wall breaking, a key part of the Postmodernist theory.
The ideology is withholding, challenging narrative and constructs a niche audience.
The crescendo of the music is when the butterfly emerges, which establishes a key symbolic code.
Low key lighting and desaturated colour grading
Camille has more screen time on the bus, is framed in a montage of close up shots, positions the audience with Camille.
The sudden dip to black following the long shot of the bus accident is symbolic of the audiences own confusion, and the primary theme of the show - death and finality.
The establishing shot and long shots of the bus establish an isolated and exotic setting for the secondary audience. This emphasises the importance of Les Revenants adopting a polysemic narrative. It must mean different things to different audiences, of different nationalities and upbringings.
Generically highly unconventional of the supernatural / horror genre. Lacks generic paradigms such as corpses, blood, monsters.
Long static shot of bus flying off highway is accompanied by diegetic screaming, yet no other camera movement demonstrates to the audience that the show will take an unconventional perspective on death and other themes.
Humans Opening Scene:
Objectification of women, seeing Anita as a sexual object, both Joe and the boy are guilty of this. The shot type is purposefully casually sexualised, and obvious to the viewer which creates a challenging ideology.
Hermeneutic code - Anita looking up at the moon - questions for the audience to consider
Long shot of synths in the warehouse
Lexis used by the family is typical of the traditional British family. (Contextualises situation) - Sarcasm.
Diegetic sound at beginning, turning off the lights, sinister non-diegetic sound that reinforces 'creepiness'. Overall quite an eerie and uncanny scene.
Long establishing shot of the location (typical London outskirts location)
Low angle of the moon shining through the ceiling
Long shot of the Hawkins family living room
Close up shot of nude male and female bodies
Cold blue artificial LED lighting
Binary opposition used in colour and lighting between the synth warehouse scene and the Hawkins life.
TV Industry
Will / can cover every topic - audience, industry representation etc
"Humans and Les Revenants"
"In this section you will be analysing the TV industry with reference to media language, representation, industry, and audience"
What media language is associated with this product? How does it create multiple meanings?
Plan:
Genre hybridity
Stereotypes / racial and exoticism
Representations
Purpose of media languagee
Multiple meanings
Polysemy od Les Revenants (poetic, hybridity, fluidity)
Challenging Ideology of Humans
Encode / decode
Target audience (niche / mass)
Key Scenes (opening of both)
DAC Intro:
Media language is a broad umbrella term for anything that can be applied through a media product that can be used to create meaning, represent audiences, create genre and so on and so forth. Media language is used within products to create iconographies and different 'rules' that we can subconsciously apply to our thought process, helping us to relate to products, and helping the producers to appeal to a wider audience, and make more profit in the process. Examples of media language include mise-en-scene, shot types, dress codes etc. Furthermore, media products which encode multiple meanings within their texts are often referred to as polysemic texts. In this response I will discuss how the television shows 'Humans' and 'Les Revenants' both incorporate media language, genre hybridity, and polysemy within their respective texts. I will also explore why producers have included media language. 'Humans' is a 2015 show that is a remake of the 2012 Swedish show, 'Real Humans'. It was released on Channel 4. The show was widely positively received. 'Les Revenants' is a French television show, produced and distributed by Canal+, released in 2012, although it was aired in the U.K. on Channel 4 in 2013.
Les Revenants opening scene:
Expositions shots
Non-diegetic sound, soft piano
Diegetic sound of bus and chattering
Panning shots, one take
Suspenseful music
Surreal elements . butterfly breaking the glass and flying away
Genre polysemy - Sci-Fi from the lights going out as she walks off, mystery from the cutaway after the bus crash, horror from the crash itself. Could also hint to French Poetic Realism
Soundtrack created by Mogwai, band with a small and niche fanbase, this also establishes the show as being quite indie.
After the suspense of the crash and release, the shots are slow, featuring panning. The hermeneutic code that is present after this creates more mystery and suspense.
Diegetic sound of screams - Encodes genre hybridity through representing generic paradigms of the horror convention.
Cutaway after the crash - butterfly reanimating and coming back - foreshadowing with what happens with Camille on the bus - symbolic code for how the characters will come back to life.
Lexis - 'Aujord Hui' - Today - Shows the current linear narrative, which will then be broken later on by the different timelines, flashbacks, etc.
Butterfly breaking the glass - symbolic of the fourth wall breaking, a key part of the Postmodernist theory.
The ideology is withholding, challenging narrative and constructs a niche audience.
The crescendo of the music is when the butterfly emerges, which establishes a key symbolic code.
Low key lighting and desaturated colour grading
Camille has more screen time on the bus, is framed in a montage of close up shots, positions the audience with Camille.
The sudden dip to black following the long shot of the bus accident is symbolic of the audiences own confusion, and the primary theme of the show - death and finality.
The establishing shot and long shots of the bus establish an isolated and exotic setting for the secondary audience. This emphasises the importance of Les Revenants adopting a polysemic narrative. It must mean different things to different audiences, of different nationalities and upbringings.
Generically highly unconventional of the supernatural / horror genre. Lacks generic paradigms such as corpses, blood, monsters.
Long static shot of bus flying off highway is accompanied by diegetic screaming, yet no other camera movement demonstrates to the audience that the show will take an unconventional perspective on death and other themes.
Humans Opening Scene:
Objectification of women, seeing Anita as a sexual object, both Joe and the boy are guilty of this. The shot type is purposefully casually sexualised, and obvious to the viewer which creates a challenging ideology.
Hermeneutic code - Anita looking up at the moon - questions for the audience to consider
Long shot of synths in the warehouse
Lexis used by the family is typical of the traditional British family. (Contextualises situation) - Sarcasm.
Diegetic sound at beginning, turning off the lights, sinister non-diegetic sound that reinforces 'creepiness'. Overall quite an eerie and uncanny scene.
Long establishing shot of the location (typical London outskirts location)
Low angle of the moon shining through the ceiling
Long shot of the Hawkins family living room
Close up shot of nude male and female bodies
Cold blue artificial LED lighting
Binary opposition used in colour and lighting between the synth warehouse scene and the Hawkins life.
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