media language
Cards (9)
- bus crash scene: media language
- enchanted sound effects: establish the show is a conventional tragedy from the beginning
- medium close up of Camille: establishes main character before disequilibrium occurs
- bereavement support group: media language
- no reaction to baby announcement: realism, its hard to celebrate whilst grieving
- complete darkness: uncanny
- bus stop scene: media language
- extra diegetic eerie sound: sense of the uncanny
- dim with silent victor: we know something Julie doesn't know(dramatic irony), enigma
- horror poster: intertextuality
- chiaroscuro lighting: Julie is warm, victor is cold which is reinforced through their personalities
- Simon's grave: media language
- grave POV: low camera shot shows the power Simon has
- no flowers: makes him question what he did in his life
- Todorov's narratology theory
- EQUILLIBRIUM: mourning, living without Camille
- DISRUPTION: people begin returning
- RECOGNITION: Camille at home, reuniting with families
- REPAIR: try to adapt to Camille, Mr costa burning wife
- NEW EQULLIBRIUM: Victor finally speaks to julie, no resolution due to the retuned being an episodic narrative
- what is the uncanny?
- stems from Freud's psychology
- distortion/alteration of the real world
- feeling of unease or far from home
- described psychological fears e.g. scared when seeing childhood fear
- our brain can't commute something too close to reality
- binary oppositions of stock characters: media language
- julie and victor: creepy 'undead' vs nurturing
- this contributes to tensions felt throughout the episode
- settings and location: media language
- used in marketing and relates to sub genre
- claustrophobia in homes
- edge of ski resort
- long roads
- surrounded by mist and darkness
- Todorovs narratolofy theory: media language
- all narratives have the same structure
- START: equilibrium and disruption
- MIDDLE: recognition and repair
- END: new equilibrium
- no linear with fragmented flash backs