TV revision
Component 2- 50 minute for each industry
7 minutes for plan and introduction
Text one: 19.5 minutes
text two: 19.5 minutes
Conclusion: 4 minutes
Lisbet 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.
(30 marks)
Knee jerk:
Agree, Humans: Toby licking his lips at Anita. Niska at the brothel and the bald guy.
Les Revenants:
Lisbet Van-Zoonen's argument is an excellent way of exploring how gender is encoded in both Humans and Les Revenants.
Encoding: embedding.
Not only does she argue that female characters are primarily situated in media products to appeal to a heterosexual audience.
Both shows feature close-up shots of the female characters. Like Anita, in order to achieve their target audience of heterosexual male teenagers. It could also be used to express Anita's ethnicity. She also infers and suggests that men and women are constructed in completely different ways by the producer. Through this, the ideological perspective of the producer can be decoded by the target audience. Both Humans and Les Revenants use complicated and subversive representations of women in order to position the audiences in often uncomfortable situations. Humans is a Sci-Fi TV show first broadcasted in the UK in 2015 on Channel 4. It is an adaptation of the Swedish show Real Humans although a number of change were made in order to make the show appeal to the UK market. Les Revenants is a French horror/thriller TV show set in a small village in the French Alps. It relied on funding from the European union and is aiming for a niche or cult audience.
Plan:
Consumerism
Objectification
Women
Comparison between Matty and Lena
Semiotic codes
Vulnerability encoded through voyeurism (Take pleasure in watching someone when they are unaware.
Mise-En-Scene, Anita's maid costume: a doll, a sex object. Fetishisation. A passive women.
Hyperreality: The media product becomes more real than the thing it is representing.
Simulacrum: Representation of something that doesn't yet exist.
Male Gaze
Gender Performativity: Judith Butler- gender roles, and the construction there of, enforced through hierarchies, hegemonic norms etc.
Breakfast scene:
Breakfast scene prepared by Anita. "This is what breakfast is supposed to be like"
Anita is represented as a stereotypical mother and maid at the same time.
Matty compares her to a dishwasher is an example of objectification.
Joe attempts to impress Anita with a joke, casually flirting
Laura is drawn into competition with Anita. M/S of Anita cleaning the table over Laura positions Anita as dominant and overbearing 'oh for god sake, you've already cleaned that'.
Intradiegetic gaze: different characters look at Anita in different ways. Matty with frustration and hatred, the son with undisguised lust ('crusty-sheets')
Anita is referred to as a 'she', a gender, a personification. The preferred reading is to see Anita as a compelling, and interesting character.
Allegorical: Explores the ways in which women are treated in society.
C/U of Niska's face in ending montage positions audience in a deliberately uncomfortable position.
Camille's return:
Camille's mother's reaction is complicated and nuanced. Initially she takes an typical 'cold' reaction, before running to the bathroom and crying is a hysterical and stereotypical manner.
Camille's attitude is stereotypically argumentative and at times disrespectful. She is neither kind nor sweet or innocent.
Non-diegetic sound relates to horror. Camille's age is emphasised through horror sound track demonstrating a generic cliche that young girls are creepy and threatening.
Low key lighting again emphasises horror genre and also gives the idea that they are middle class.
7 minutes for plan and introduction
Text one: 19.5 minutes
text two: 19.5 minutes
Conclusion: 4 minutes
Lisbet 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.
(30 marks)
Knee jerk:
Agree, Humans: Toby licking his lips at Anita. Niska at the brothel and the bald guy.
Les Revenants:
Lisbet Van-Zoonen's argument is an excellent way of exploring how gender is encoded in both Humans and Les Revenants.
Encoding: embedding.
Not only does she argue that female characters are primarily situated in media products to appeal to a heterosexual audience.
Both shows feature close-up shots of the female characters. Like Anita, in order to achieve their target audience of heterosexual male teenagers. It could also be used to express Anita's ethnicity. She also infers and suggests that men and women are constructed in completely different ways by the producer. Through this, the ideological perspective of the producer can be decoded by the target audience. Both Humans and Les Revenants use complicated and subversive representations of women in order to position the audiences in often uncomfortable situations. Humans is a Sci-Fi TV show first broadcasted in the UK in 2015 on Channel 4. It is an adaptation of the Swedish show Real Humans although a number of change were made in order to make the show appeal to the UK market. Les Revenants is a French horror/thriller TV show set in a small village in the French Alps. It relied on funding from the European union and is aiming for a niche or cult audience.
Plan:
Consumerism
Objectification
Women
Comparison between Matty and Lena
Semiotic codes
Vulnerability encoded through voyeurism (Take pleasure in watching someone when they are unaware.
Mise-En-Scene, Anita's maid costume: a doll, a sex object. Fetishisation. A passive women.
Hyperreality: The media product becomes more real than the thing it is representing.
Simulacrum: Representation of something that doesn't yet exist.
Male Gaze
Gender Performativity: Judith Butler- gender roles, and the construction there of, enforced through hierarchies, hegemonic norms etc.
Breakfast scene:
Breakfast scene prepared by Anita. "This is what breakfast is supposed to be like"
Anita is represented as a stereotypical mother and maid at the same time.
Matty compares her to a dishwasher is an example of objectification.
Joe attempts to impress Anita with a joke, casually flirting
Laura is drawn into competition with Anita. M/S of Anita cleaning the table over Laura positions Anita as dominant and overbearing 'oh for god sake, you've already cleaned that'.
Intradiegetic gaze: different characters look at Anita in different ways. Matty with frustration and hatred, the son with undisguised lust ('crusty-sheets')
Anita is referred to as a 'she', a gender, a personification. The preferred reading is to see Anita as a compelling, and interesting character.
Allegorical: Explores the ways in which women are treated in society.
C/U of Niska's face in ending montage positions audience in a deliberately uncomfortable position.
Camille's return:
Camille's mother's reaction is complicated and nuanced. Initially she takes an typical 'cold' reaction, before running to the bathroom and crying is a hysterical and stereotypical manner.
Camille's attitude is stereotypically argumentative and at times disrespectful. She is neither kind nor sweet or innocent.
Non-diegetic sound relates to horror. Camille's age is emphasised through horror sound track demonstrating a generic cliche that young girls are creepy and threatening.
Low key lighting again emphasises horror genre and also gives the idea that they are middle class.
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