End of week question : plan

"It is essential for a TV programme to simultaneously target both mass and specialised audiences"

Explore this statement with reference to Les Revenants

Thirty minutes

Knee jerk reaction: Yes! Les Revenants expertly targets both 'casual' and 'devoted' audiences, by providing the audience with a range of polysemic readings

Key theory: Stuart Hall's reception theory PNO

P- preferred 

N- negotiated- The audience generally agrees with what they see, but they may disagree with certain aspects
O- opersition 

negotiated- sex and death- binary oppersition
 
write about trailer- mass audience- british 

intro
2 paragraphs
conclusion


polysemic-  Polysemic text refers to the idea that any text can have multiple meanings rather than a single meaning. 

MICHAEL'S TOP TIP - how useful is this theory really? Does Les Revenants even have a preferred reading? Surely it lacks one, instead focusing on confusing the audience as much as possible with a range of hermeneutic codes and complex use of intertextuality?

• There's now more/ diverse range of choices in TV
• There started with only 1 channel 
• Channel 4 (4th channel) (1982)
• Broad casting doesn't really exist, its more about narrow casting
• Now it is possible to stream shows whenever you want (uses the internet)
• Les Revenant: was screened on channel 4 in the uk 
• Keep context to a minimum, just a few facts
• Uses hermeneutic codes throughout 

Key scenes:

audience responses/ negotiated response:

• confused but i like it
• its in french but theres subtitles i can't be bothered to watch it 
• confused whats the mum going to do?
• what are the weird pictures on the door
• active audience leads to more revenue 
• cu shots of Claire's, far too uncomfortable
• Feeling sorry for Camille 
• enjoyment at having genre conventions exploded
• its nothing like the trailer
• crane/tracking shot following Claire up the stairs conforms to horror conventions
• enjoyment at having Claire's atypical response- a fully flashed out character, subverting character archetypes
• frustration at the use of montage, lack of definitive action and fast paced editing

scene 2:

• what is going on
• who is he
• why isn't she at school
• whys she panicking
• enjoyment at mystery being revealed