Les revenant and exam structure

 Introduction (DAC)
- Definition
- Argument (Argue 1 way and stick to it)
- Context
2012 Les revenants released


Paragraphs (PEA)
- Point
- Evidence
- Argument

The words to include in the exam...
- Polysemy
- Hegemony
- Intertextuality 
- Ideology 
- Negotiation (Stuart Hall)

 "In the 21st century, it is essential for Tv shows to offer multiple meanings" 
- evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants 

- Yes it is essential
- Relates to cult Tv
- Reception theory (Stuart Hall)

-extreme long shot of road and bus
- Setting - mountains, the alpes
- interior mid shot of Camille sitting on bus
- Camille is main focus has more screen time on the bus and is consistently framed in a montage of close up shots which positions the audience with the young Camille. Camilles age allows teenage audiences to invest
- Suggests time has passed
- Slow zoom from exterior to interior focused on butterflies in frame
- Soundtrack by
- Camera slowly tracks the butterfly and end on older character
- Mid shot tracking shot as Camille walks down the alpes
- Editing - sudden and mysterious dip to black and following the long shot of the traumatic bus accident is symbolic of not only the audience's own confusion and the shows primary theme of death and finality
- Use of music - reaches a crescendo at the point here the butterfly emerges from the display, demonstrating to the audience a key symbolic code, helping the to understand the complicated narrative
- Low key lighting and desaturated colour grading in the scene where Camille returns home emphasises to the audience  a potential hermeneutic code, and forces the audience to negotiate their own perspective of the narrative. This enforces a polysemic reading of the text
 - Establishing shot and the subsequent long shots of the bus establish an isolated and exotic setting for the secondary British and international audience. This emphasises the importance of Les revenants adopting a polysemic narrative
- Generically highly unconventional of the supernatural/horror genre. Lacks generic paradigms such as corpses, blood and monsters etc. It is not until much later in the narrative Camille is established to be very unconventional 'Zombie"
- Long shot 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 grand themes

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