les revenants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msJoeYVUYE


moody, green/blue. intense emotion 

dull and moody music sets the theme.
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R.E.S.I.S.T.S

Recurring aspects of genre   
- the dead return/rise
-meeting of survivors - or rather the returned
-dam levels sink and power goes out occasionally


Elements of plot/narrative
-the 'return' from the dead as Todorovian disruption 


-binary oppositions - living vs dead, past vs present
-orpheus narrative archetype - deals with loss- the families of returned
-denouement- alternate scenarios 
-not really any narrative closure - lots of questions
-enigma codes throughout - lots of questions


Stock Characters or archetypes
-eerie child (exceptional powers)
-arrogant gung-ho (extremely or overly zealous or enthusiastic.
-disrupted family unit
- the character who cant let go
- new 'family' community created 

Iconography - stereotypical or unique imagery
-blank stares
-decaying flesh
-blood
-mist/darkness

Settings
-the mall or community hub
-community setting
-enclosed spaces and closed frames
-isolated settings close to nature

Themes
-existential themes-  nature of human condition
-mortality and human
-impact of violence on humanity
-humans as the real monsters
-fate
-disillusionment


Style - camera angle, shot type, lighting, pace etc
-music soundtrack - dark and boring
-lowkey lighting - chiaroscuro lighting
-hard focus
-open and long lasting shots
-desaturated colour palette

Read the article, create a comparative summary including quotes. (Create a table or other knowledge organiser if you wish) Articles can be found in teams.​ Produce a paragraph response addressing these bullet points​

Who is the audience for Les Revenants? What genre?​


How are the dead represented?​


The living?​


What themes are conveyed – think binary oppositions and/or allegory


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Genre?
-horror?
-drama?
-avant garde?
-supernatural? 
-zombie?
-french?


- steve neale - theories around genre
 - why does genre exist?
 -who benefits from generic classification?
 -what are some advantages of genre?
 - what are some disadvantages?


https://lr-media.blogspot.com/2018/11/les-revenants-initial-screening-notes.html 

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“In the 21st century, it is essential for TV shows to offer their audiences multiple meanings” – evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants 

Fabrice Gobert’s adaptation of Campillo’s narrative into a television series similarly echoes a​
highly mediatized migration event [9]: the displacement of a large part of the Syrian population into​Europe following the violence of the Syrian civil war and the Islamic State’s perpetration of crimes in​the region. This contemporary wave of migration into Europe provoked in 2014 the creation of a new​shantytown inside Calais, nicknamed “Sangatte II” and the “New Jungle” by both Francophone and​Anglophone media7. Gobert began producing the television series Les Revenants in 2012, as debates and​ newscasts regarding the Syrian migration began to garner increased interest from the general public.​However, the series took a different turn from Campillo’s 2004 film production in associating the​ return of the dead in a small French town in the Alps with a multifaceted local ecological disaster, and​ a commentary on established religion in the protagonists’ reaction to the reappearance of the returned.

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representation -  what is it, and why is it important?

the study of representation looks at:
1.     The group, place or issue on which a media product is focusing.​
2.     The media language the media product uses in order to present these groups or issues.​
3.     The ideological perspective about the group or issue being created within the product.​
4.     The impact of this ideological perspective on the target audience.​

Camille: 
1- young, female, puberty. naive? - lacks awareness, purity
hidden side?
relatable to audience, surrogate
lena's sexuality 
2- isolated establishing
innocence
binary opposition
dim / bland saturated lighting 
3- decay/death of innocence?
4- young tragedy


claire
1- mother dealing with grief , religious? manic
2- lowkey lighting, dark, face obscured, warm tones
3- a family trying to deal with grief and the effect of said person coming back from the dead
4- empathising with a common emotion mixed with fantasy and sci fi elements

madame costa - 




simon
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