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 Controversial themes: death, sex Les Revenants is about the interrelationship between sex and death  Inevitability about grief, misery, losing a love one Highly unconventional horror show but it is a conventional drama and mystery show Many hegemonically attractive characters Family aspect will attract a wider audience  losing a loved one becuase it happens to everyone More realistic show than humans Binary opposition and drama between many characters  This show was pertly funded by a french alp tourist board Theories: Livingstone and lunt: What regulatory factors potentially affect les revenants? Violence, girl gets stabbed in the tunnel late at night. Its a very detailed attach quite graphic Sex, there is only one scene at the end of the episode but the characters are underage Stuart Hall: In what ways can audience receive les revenants?  Preferred negotiated, and oppositional readings The preferred reading would be when people enjoy the mystery genre and the...

'In the 21st century, it is essential for TV shows to offer their audience multiple meanings' evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants.  Plan: Polysemy - multiple meanings some context about the show  26th November 2012 on Canal+ (first aired) UK released on 9th June 2013 on Channel 4 2 series, 8 episodes  Based on the French film (they came back) 2004 created by Fancice Gobert  Niche audience not a mass target but there are many different characters in the show wich will apeal to a wider audeince   The TV show Les Revenants presennts multiple meaning to the audince as there are many scenes in the first episode that create many polysemic interpretations Les Revenants presents the audience with a complicated and hard to decode set of ideologies highly uncommercial themes and ideologies Reception theory, audiences can negotiate Roland barths semeotics - completley based of hermenutic codes Julie and Victor scene and the bus stop - media language an...

'In the 21st century, it is essential for TV shows to offer their audience multiple meanings' evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants.   The inevitability of death  Les Revenants is a highly uncommercial show due to its themes and ideologies  Les Revenants presents the audience with a complicated and hard to decode set of ideologies There are a range of different characters in the show which makes it appeal to a wider audience because people will relate to some of the characters. Camilie - will appeal to teenage girls Clarie - might appeal to middle age middle class women like her Julie - might appeal to women who might identify with her or men Simon - potentially appeals to young gay man or women  Simon and Lena go home scene: 34:00-38:00 How does this scene create multiple meanings for different audiences? In what ways are men and women represented in this scene? Walking to Adele's house: Echos through the underground bypass Shadows and low key lig...

 Key context facts about Les Revenants: 26th November 2012 on Canal+ (first aired) UK released on 9th June 2013 on Channel 4 2 series, 8 episodes  Based on the French film (they came back) 2004 created by Fancice Gobert  Les Revenants is a show completely based on Hermenutic codes. Classical Hollywood narrative - the narrative of every media product should be understood by everyone who choses to watch it.  Key Terms: Negotiation - The process where an audience decides which ideologies they accept and reject / the process of give and take between audience and producer Intertexuality - Where a media product or text makes reference to another media product or text Polysemy/polysemic - where a media product holds many different meanings. Different audiences may therefore come up with many different interpretations of the text.  Ideology - A system of believes and values of the producer. Every media product has an ideology. Hegomony  - The influence of p...

 Les Revenants is a unconventional TV drama  Hermenutic code at the beggining "What the hell is happening" Questions we ask ourselves: Who is the little boy? How has she come back to life? Why do people come back to life? How are the sisters connected? Who is the murderer? Who are the boys parents? Les Revenants is a narrative which is completely reliant on a series of on a series of hermenutic codes. Not a show for a mass audience. Niche audience. 18+. Its very mysterious and violent which might put some people off.  Classical Hollywood narrative: invisible narrative. Every problem is solved in teh course of the narrative, and every mystery is made clear to the audience. 'Overly obvious narrative'  Atypical narratives allows for a cult audience to actiley engage with the show. Audiences can recieve and negotiate Les Revenants in a variety of different ways  Themes: Death guilt how people have moved on with their lives since the people have deid how death effect...

 Watching the first episode: First Impressions and notes: Set in the mountains in France Tense music  Dark lighting throughout the episode, not much colour, set in the night time. Only parts that arn't in night time is the beginning and end Alot of scenes with just music and panning in the camera. Not much dialogue Hermenutic code as the hole episode creates mystery for the viewer Last 5 minutes of the episode is '4 years earlier'  first released on 26th November 2012 on Canal + UK release 9th June 2013 on Channel 4 2 Series, 8 episodes Based on the French film (They came back 2004) Production Company: Haut et Court Genre: Horror, mystery  Its a french supernatural drama television series created by Fabrice Gobert, based on the 2004 film They came back. 

In what ways does the TV industry use specialized forms of distribution? Make reference to Humans in your answer. 15marks Distribution is making a media product available to audience to consume it. Humans uses a range of forms of specialized distribution in order to maximise profit. This links to David Hesmondhalgh theory about the cultural industry's, he believes every media industry is specialized and every media industry is structured to minimise risk and maximise profit. TV in general is a specialised industry, it has changed considerably throughout the years of digital technology. It has changed through production, distribution, and consumption by new digitally convergent technologies. The show was realeased in June 2015 and is in a sci-fi, alternative present genre. It was originally a Swedish show but was remade in English. One way 'Humans' uses specialized forms of distribution is that it is a co-production between AMC (American movie channel) and Channel 4 meaning ...

 Promotion - raising awareness  Marketing - actively selling of a product  Distribution - putting a media product out  Circulation - how many copies of a product are given out  Narrow-casting - small audience Broadcasting - Wide audience Persona Synthetics - are the people that make synthetics Hermenutic code - its all a mystery   This is a advert for synths as opposed to an advert from the TV show Conventional trailers include a montage of clips perhaps a low voice over telling you when the show first episode comes out.  This is a diagetically situated trailer, its very unconventional  Guerrilla Marketing is marketing that breaks rules, its attention grabbing and unconventional Viral marketing Humans is targeting a cult audience - smaller but more motivated  Nichie fans of Science Fiction  Henry Jenkins - Fandom theory  Fans are much more likely to engage with the TV  show, following fan social media accounts and buying m...