Les Revenants - Media Set Product 13

Les Revenants

• A French Television Series first released in 2012.
• It is an unconventional TV drama.
• 'The Returned'.

Semantic codes - hermenutic codes and audience

• It is a narrative reliant on a series of hermenutic codes.
• It is targetted at niche, cult audiences.
• Unlike Classical Hollywood, where the audience's questions and mystery is usually all solved in an invisible narrative, making it clear to what happened. An overly obvious narrative.
• Les Revenants - Atypical narrative, this attracts a niche and fragementary audience and not a mass audience like Hollywood as fans can engagae with the media. A mass audience wouldn't enjoy the enigma of the show. 
• Reception theory - audiences can recieve and negotiate Les Revenants in many ways.

Genre

• Genre is the categorising of media products based on set conventions that are repeated and then changed.
• For producers to target audiences and for audiences to choose what they would like to engage in.
• To target pre exisitng audiences.
• (Conventions) Generic paradigm: a feature, code or symbol within a media product that 'tells' the audience what genre a product belongs (to show).
• Les Revenants features a variety of generic paradgims of its genre.
• Genre conventions are repeated and reinforced over time.
• Hybrid genres - combination of two or more genres.
• Subgenre - genre within a genre.
• Horror genre.
• Sub genre - zombie - dead coming back to life but doesn’t have the typical conventions of it.
• Setting - a small upmarket village near the alps.
• Les Revenants is an unconventional horror and drama.
• The dead coming back to life.

Scene: Camille comes home

- Night time setting.
- Low key lighting.
- Mid shot of Clare, thinking Léna is home.
- Shot of the hand, mid shot of her hair and clothes.
- The mums facial expression is of disbelief.
- Camille thinks she is in disbelief and worry of how late she has come back home.
- Camille runs a bath and the mother messes up her room.
- Shot of mother of Léna's room messy mise en scene she then goes into Camille's room clean - cross cutting.
- Panning shot of setting.
- Tracking shot of Camille.
- Clare upstairs - we are positioned with her.
- Although we’re behind her we are still positioned.
- Low key lighting, hermenutic code.
- Expression of face dazed confused pov shot
- No non diegetic sound in the beginning - heavy breathing of claire and coming down the stairs and ‘Léna?’ and Camille rummaging in the fridge.
- Diegensis - in the world of narrative. 

- Music - Non-diegetic - eerie and low pitched, increasing tension.
- Mysterious girl, hand and hair - generic paradigm we expected a scare moment because she is alone and everything follows that.

- Simulataniously two different genres unfolding in this scene with stereotypical and conventional horror music contrasting with a dramatic scene, creating contrapuntal sound.

        - Clare doesn't have a typical reaction, by the standards of Hollywood. It is seemingly              illogical and mysterious but is routed as a 'real' reaction.