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Les Revenants - Representation

Representation is the study of...


1.The group, place or issue on which a media product is focusing.

2.The media language the media product uses in order to present these groups or issues.

3.The ideological perspective about the group or issue being created within the product.

4.The impact of this ideological perspective on the target audience.


 What is it and why is it important?
- Helps display the producers ideology, representation is the construction of the producers ideology


Character study 

- None of the characters are sexualised in these pictures, all have a serious expression


- Bomber Jacket, black, leather. "Cool guy".
- Black slightly wavy hair (French), bigger eyebrows (French)
- French eyes 
- Early twenties
- Attractive



- Button up blue pattern shirt with grey cardigan, more conservative
- Au natural
- Teenage girl
- Long auburn hair, young, free?
- Pale, young, sheltered life(dead?)
- Flowery yellow background, kindness, innocence, happiness, virginal
- 18 year old playing 15 year old. Made to look young. 
- Stereotypical 'good girl' teenage girl not a rebellious teen, 
- complex representation, allows audience to negotiate their own response


- Grey jumper, classic, comfortable, shic, stylish but not over the top
- Wavy dirty blonde hair, openminded, relaxed, bit wild?
- Late 30's / middle-aged
- Au naturale, comfortable in her own skin
- Mother
- Attractive



- Tan suit jacket with a shirt with some frills and patterning on
- Brown hair in a ponytail, reserved 
- 40's / middle aged
- Sleepy French eyes 





- Grey jumper with white collared shirt, intelligent
- Hair partially tied up, a bit reserved
- Background, white grey and blue, hospital like
- Au natural, comfortable in her own skin
- Mid twenties (27 when filming)



Promotional image
See lots of different ages
Different cultures (backgrounds)
Mise-en-scene of clothing can stereotype characters social class, occupations
Mise-en-scene countryside rural settings
Paradigmatic feature of zombie genre, mass of people walking towards camera, misty background
All characters are white - ethnically homoginous
Representation of French rural life

One allegorical aspect is relationships within a community
Grief and mourning of loved ones
The one sure thing in life is death
Not about survival, coming to terms with grief, removing it?
Abjection - Two things being together which shouldn't be. Blood, corpse, spit. Used to be part of a body and now they're not.
Allows us to live out a fantasy without actually having to go through it



LACK OF A MAIN CHARACTER CREATES A HIGHLY UNCONVENTIONAL SUBVERSIVE NARRATIVE



MOGWAI
Post-rock band. Own their own label 'Rock Action'
From Scotland (Glaswegian) 
Slow, echoing, reflective, mood driven sound
Subversive of genre, like les revenants, non-commercial, like les revenants
MOGWAI turn down a lot of offers, didn't turn down this, show reflects ideals of band
Allows for cult audiences to be accessed (MOGWAI fans)
Allows for an international audience

MOGWAI and Les Revenants work well together - synergy 
MOGWAI released the soundtrack album 'Les Revenant's


Trailer
Very little in common to the TV show - immediately tells us dead family are coming back, shows us relationships that aren't even seen in the first episode, 
Serves an extra diagetic purpose (beyond the world of the narrative)


Les Revenant promotional Image 
"The past decided to resurface"
Related image

Reminiscent of supernatural romance 


Merchandise
T-shirts, soundtrack, book



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