Revision Component 2 - section A, Humans and Les revenants

"All genres exist and function through a process of repetition and difference" - Use Steve Neale's genre theory to explore this notion in Humans and Les Revenants. [30] 

Plan:

  • camera work
  • narrative
  • Editing 
  • Genre fluidity 
  • mise en scene 
Introduction(DAC):


Neale argues that the genre works through presenting a series of easily identifiable generic paradigms in order to ensure an audience. However, in order to maintain audiences over timer there is also a requirement for the producer to vary genre conventions. Thus all media products exist as a combination of the repetition and difference of genre conventions. I shall argue that both of the tv shows i have studied are simultaneously typical and yet atypical in the ways they present as genre. This is primarily to appeal to both a core and niche audience. In order to explore this I shall be using the examples of Humans, a 2015 channel 4 sci-fi UK Tv series, based off the Swedish sci-fi show real Humans, and Les Revenants, a french supernatural drama/zombie show first broadcast in 2012 on Canal plus, based on the 2004 film of the same name. Both shows have been distributed to a number of audiences in other countries.

Scene in Les Revenants 

  • Goes against Hollywood stereotypes 
  • Mr Costa walking down corridor builds tension, proairetic code expect to see a dead body, atypical result as its a women sitting eating pasta 
  • Anti climatic - Not typical of a horror show 
  • Designed for a niche or cult audience as its atypical of the typical horror genre and to them would be different and exciting
  •  Its also typical as its a supernatural zombie, romance show 
Julie goes home
  • Mid shot, shallow depth of field with Viktor in background
  • Cuts to other scenes, the bar to the middle class house
  • Appealing to wide range of audiences as a wide range of scenes 
  • Camille in house - mid shot in her room, stereotypical teen's room, innocence and confusion 
  • Camille gobby teen girl 
  • Ensemble cast - wide range of cast of different ages and genders
  • Back to suburbs, binary opposition between middle class house and working class neighbourhood where Julie lives
  • Julie lives in social housing block, lots of concrete, harsh artificial lighting - relatable
  • Viktor is stereotypical horror film character - mute, follows Julie 
  • Long shot of kid outside, creepy
  • Typical horror music - synth, slow, low tempo and sparse, non diegetic
  • Diegetic - ring of bell, atmos sound/ambient sound  
  • Low key lighting
  • Binary oppositions- Levi Strauss - Dark deserted town with the innocent child walking around
  • Codes and conventions - Barthes, hermeneutic codes taken to extreme in Les Revenants nothing gets answered
  • Henry Jenkins - fandom theory, keeps audience guessing so they keep watching and interact with each other
  • Each episode focuses on a different character first episode focuses on Camille, follows a particular character arc
  • funding from EU and French Alpes tourist campaign - Its French as there are stereotypical French characters, stereotypical loving attitude of French, French setting - stereotypical French countryside, escapism, nostalgic 
  • Les Revenants is massively atypical as its not based in Paris and in an unknown part of France to the audience 

Scene in Humans 
  • Technological singularity - Point where humans and Artificial Intelligence become equal
  • Humans is an allegory  
  • Anita is a mum, a doll 
  • About the rights of women and feminism- mother sees Anita as competition, attractive - Matty wants to torture Anita, play thing  
  • "This is how breakfast is supposed to be" - hyperreality, hegemony - Anita is perfect because she is not real (hyperreal)- she doesn't have consent 
  • Robots are objectified, women are objectified, Anita being pulled out a box


    Odi scene 
    • Mise en scene - British shopping centre, audience are positioned at home in UK 
    • Humans was remade to target a British audience
    • Atypical sci-fi setting  
    • George is in a position of submissiveness 
    • Drummond in a position of power - supermarket shot him looking down on George 
    • Odi is hyperreal - he is broken, needs to be looked after, fragile and George loves him so much
    • Humans deals with a range of difficult context and subjects 
    • Bright green synth eyes are a convention of sci-fi
    • Drummond is objectifying Odi
    • Humans offers the audience many negotiated readings 
    • Humans is excellent at appealing to a core and mainstream audience 
    • Polysemic 




































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