comparing les revenants and humans.

WHAT MEDIA LANGUAGE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PRODUCT? AND HOW DOES IT CREATE MULTIPLE MEANINGS?

• purpose of media language
• plysemy and multiple meanings
• challenge ideology of humans
• encoding and  decoding of meanings 
• target audience
• key scenes

intro to les revenants

• "camille" we dont know who she is- unconventional
• wide establishing shot, panning up to the alps, foreign setting
• sombre music before bus crash
• see girls face cammile, she is the protagonist as we follow her but then she dies within the first few minutes, is unconventional.
• relateable to many audiences as most children go on school trips
• hermeneutic code
• horror conventions as poeple scream and starts with death. static shot away from the action is unconventional, as many fast paced editing follows the action as death is extreme nd i this case chaotic.
• confusing with the titles/ captions. "aujourd'hui" dosent give much referance to when the first scene happened if it wasnt present day.
• intense non-diagetic music builds, increasing intensity and suspense.
• butterfly can be a symbol of transformation and change, as well as being fragile and graceful so has multiple meanings.butterfly coming back to life is a signifier/ foreshadowing what is about to happen.
• music is from mogwai- Scottish band, is niche 
• day and night, life and death, binary oppositions encode how we should think of life and death.

intro to humans 

• mechanical sounds, technology and futuristic. 
• metallic eyeball is symbolic of robots 
• clinical and scientific 
• naked which is stripped to its original state, underwear is all the same as they have no personality, feelings they are robots literally but also a code for being robotic and monotone
• moonlight acts as a spotlight, highlights her as different from the rest.
• panning shot of the warehouse line up with robots.
• eerie, non- diegetic music as she looks up at the skylight. acts as a hermeneutic code as we wonder how she is "awake" and why she is looking at the moon, why is she the only one?
• binary opposition of organic and synthetic life forms and material
• shot of x-ray and robot hands, shoe they seem similar but also how two are binary opposites.
• diegetic sound of interview, do you need extra help around the house, setting up the premise and reasons for these robots existing.
•  blue-ish green colour, blue has connotations of technology and is associated with science. the green is symbollic of organic life e.g biology like plants and animals.
• possible intertextual referance to black mirror
•  shot of annita looking up and being awake is similar to the scene of butterfly breaking free from les revenants. one awake/alive next to the husks of the others.

media language is techniques that are used to encode meaning