Les Revenants Fact File

• Soundtrack - Mogwai
• Glasgow Megasnake (Mogwai) - Electric/Metal.
• 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 o 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 audiences 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 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.
• Another example of merchandise is a book of Les Revenants written by Seth Patrick.
• Buying a t shirt because you enjoyed the show would show to other people that you are a super fan.

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