Les Revenants- Exam structure:

Exam Structure:

• Introduction
• Point
• Evidence
• Explain
• Conclusion

Introduction: DAC

• Definition - key terms
• Argument- argue one way and stick too it 
• Context- back story e.g les revenants was released in 2012 in France, uk 2013

Paragraphs: PEA

• Point- related to media language
• Evidence- from the text
• Argument- how it links to the argument made in the introduction

5 Key terms:

• negotiation- Stuart Hall's theory
• ideology
• intertextuality
• polysemy
• hegemony

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

Knee jerk reaction:

• Yes- to gain a wider audience, may relate to cult tv as it gives people something to talk about
• reception theory

opening scene:

• establishing shot
• extreme long shot
• diegetic sound
• cut to black
• slow zoom from exterior to interior 
• slow tracking
• high angle shot 
• binary opersition from older character and Camille 
• close up of Camille face

possible Answer points:

the sound track- as it zooms in on the butterfly and as it breaks free the music reaches a crescendo - demonstrating it is a key part- is also a symbolic code helping the audience 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 on the narrative. enforcing a polysemic reading of the text

Camille 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. camille's age allows teenage audiences to invest in the complicated narrative

the sudden and mysterious dip to black following the long shot of the traumatic bus accident is symbolic of not only the audiences own confusion and the show's primary theme of death and finality 

establishing shot and subsequent long shots of the bus establish an isolated and exotic setting for the secondary British audience. this emphasises the importance of Les Revenants adopting a polysemic narrative. it must mean different things to audiences of different nationalities

generically highly unconventional of the supernatural/ horror genre. lacks generic paradigms such as corpses, blood, monsters etc. it is not until much later in the narrative Camille is established to be a very unconventional 'zombie'

long shot static shot of the bus flying off the high way which is accompanied by diegetic screaming, yet no other camera movement- demonstrates to the audience that the show will take a unconventional perspective on death and other grand themes.