Les Revenants Fact File Among Other Things

Glasgow Megasnake (Mogwai) - Electric/Metal, The bands wearing quite casual clothes.

  • The soundtrack for Les Revenants was performed by Mogwai
  • There are no lyrics in their music and they are an instrumental band.
  • Not exactly typical rock.
  • Distorted guitars.
  • Their Songs tend to be very long.
  • Mogwai lack a frontman.
  • They look boring and very casual.
  • Not very attractive.
  • They are from Scotland.
  • Golber wanted to attract a preset audience already.
  • Mogwai own their own rock action (Vertical integration).
  • Example of Conglomeration and Synergy (two media products working well together. 
  • Allows international audience to find out who Mogwai is.
  • Subcultural capital- Mogwai tend to turn down tv shows.
  • Both of them (Les Revenants and Mogwai) are quite a good fit as they are both different.    
Les Revenants Trailer Analysis- How does Les Revenants target its audience through the trailer?
  • Targeted towards a International audience, as the writing is in English.
  • Quotes from the newspapers such as the Sunday times, which is an English Newspaper.
  • Sells the show as a horror, action, drama show.
  • The trailer has been assembled with loads of clips from the TV show.
  • It makes it more exciting, this show is an atypical Horror show which is hard to sell.
  • Stuart Hall Reception Theory because it has so many different genre conventions, may take interest in the intertextuality.
  • Les Revenants encourages people to have an active reading.
  • Les Revenants invites its audience to negotiate its readings.
  • Hermeneutic Codes in the promotional campaign of the wedding dress and Why is he wearing it? Who is the Groom?
  • Poster targets the French audience through the use of a 'love story'.
  • The Font is split which could be considered a Binary opposition of the dead and alive.
  • No marks for knowing what happens after the first episode.
  • Book Cover sells the TV Show to a wider audience.
  • A tie in book released in English by Seth Patrick.
  • Buying a T-Shirt which shows they enjoyed the show, you demonstrate that you are a super fan.
  • The soundtrack you may find immersive because of the show and they released an album called 'Les Revenants'.
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