Representation

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 being created within the product 
• The impact of this ideological perspective of the target audience  

Stereotypical representations limit the diversity in a society 

A Promo Image - images that are not part of the show but have been taken to sell the show

Press Pack - info sent to a newspaper to help aid with a review

Camille is presented as innocent, her facial expression 

Delicate due to the flowers behind her

Direct mode of address allows her to build a bond with her and the audience 

The blue and cool colours are symbolic of her death scene but also represent tranquility 

The casting of the actor who clearly looks a lot younger then she actually is done on purpose

She seems moody and grumpy

Her hair is plain and her clothes are mature, all in all, dull

Her eyes are dead and the direct mode of address allows you to see her natural face and the fact she is made to look so pale corpse like.  

in many ways she looks like a teenager 

Claire Ségruret is seen as looking quite tired

A middle aged mother, she is stereotypically attractive - natural make up and making yourself seem as naturally pretty as possible

She appears to be middle class so therefore she appears to be attractive to middle aged people

She is not a stereotypical mother, she is atypical, she seems cold and mysterious

She is a hurt woman

Madam Costa looks very innocent yet troubled 

She is another middle aged middle class woman

She is dressed quite trendy, looks as though she has a white collar job

Glamorous 

She looks tired and quite old

She seems weak and childish, mischievous

Atypical representation of a woman

Simon is seen as stern almost angry

Older teen, approaching twenties

hegamonically attractive, tall dark and handsome  

The leather jacket has connotations of rebellious  

Dark hair - dark personality 

Simon kind of takes the role of antagonist in La Revenant 

This reinforces how there are particular ways to behave

Julie is a positive character as she does not succumb to sexualisation 

The whole cast looks stereotypically French due to the anchorage of the title being French

The marketing of the promotional image resembles those films similar to and including Twilight

They are known as 'TV Ugly'

It is subversive of typical TV yet typical of cult TV

There is a binary opposition from the mundane looking cast, fantastical elements are presented in an ordinary world

They are all white, there is no white people in this promo picture of all of them

There is no non-white people in this picture as France are a lot less excepting of those other than white.  It lives up to the conventions of Horror films, Les Revenant lacks a token black character, the whole class are all universally middle class.

Symbolic inhalation, no black people, made as if they do not even exist