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Instrumentalist Band - No Singer Scottish Band All Men - Beardy Men Sludgy Deep and Dark Tones Black Cat - 6 minute songs Atypical bend, targeting a niche/cult audience  Mogwai are an example of Henry Jenkins -+ The soundtrack of Les Revenant is inappropriate so to have Mogwai's music in the show they had to tone it down so therefore to have a name with a cult following in France it allows more people to be attracted to them, this is called, addressing a pre-sold audience   The American Marketing Advert  The fast paced editing adds tension and drama to the advert Jump cuts, are symbolic of its horror genre, dramatically dramatised compared to the actual version  The Mes en Scene  There is a focused contrast between violence and sex The romanticised scenes of the Simon and Adele makes it also seem like a romantic film They do not show all 8 of the main retuned as it would take too long, focus on parts that would not be as inter...

Liesbet Van-Zoonen argues that media language encodes how male and female characters act in media products. Explore how representations position the audience in Humans and Les Revenants In this exam I will be talking about how you can apply Lisbet Van-Zoonen's theory to my case studies, Humans and Les Revenants when talking about how they encode how both male and female characters act in the two media product, I will be talking about how the representations of male and females position the audience and comparing them to one another. In Les Revenant, the sex scene between Lena and her boyfriend portrays the youth clutter of male and females.  You see the couple having sex for the first time which positions the audience in a voyeristic mode of address making it seem quite uncomfortable for the audience.  However, the male in the scene is seen as dominant one and takes the lead by closing the curtains, asking Lena is she wants to have sex and being the one to...

Jean Baudrillard (hyperreality)  suggested that “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Evaluate the extent to which this postmodernist statement applies  Humans  and  Les Revenants I DISAGREE My 3 scenes:  Madam Costa's in the Kitchen Simon's at the door  Camille makes a sandwich How did she get here? It drives Mr Costa into thinking his is mad, there is more morning that information here in this scene  You get very little information from this, it is the meaning and and connotations of his costume and her costume that allow the audience into realising what is going on

Representation is a re presentation it demonstrates the producers ideologies.  Representation allows audience members to be targeted by producers and also allows producers to specifically target certain people for certain things for financial gain.  Producers use representation to manipulate a certain a certain group of people, using stereotypes, these help audiences to identify the certain characters.  It is also a shortcut for both the audience and producer, it allows the producer to save time, manipulating the audience to into change their beliefs to the producers one.  The reason the producer wants to manipulate and change he beliefs of the audience is to re write societal ideas on certain things.  THE STUDY OF REPRESENTATION LOOKS AT: The Group, Place or issue on which a media product is focusing on The Media Language that the media product uses in order to present the groups or issues  The ideological perspective about the group or issue b...

The Returned is a French supernatural drama television series, created by Frabice Gpbert and is based on a French film called They Came Back  (2004) . The series debuted on the 26th November, consisting of 8 episodes (same as humans), it came out on the channel Canal Plus ( Ploo ) and on the 13th of December 2013, the first series won an International Emmy Award for best Drama Series.   In the UK on the 9th of June 2013 it aired on Channel 4 2 series 8 episodes in each of the series Genre Conventions of Les Revenant  Supernatural - the tee of the living dead Gothic - The dark shadows and the themes of madness and decay Mystery - How the dead have come back alive, the scenes of Camile walking through the mountains Family Drama - The scene were Lana and Camile and see eachother and everyone starts crying Audience Gratification/Negotiation and textual poaching - disobeying the producers intentions and reading scenes wrong Zombie - people coming back ...