Component 1 Section B - Industry and Audience
Media products are always standardised products (apart from Adbusters)
In what ways are Humans and Les Revenants shaped by specialised forms of production, distribution and circulation?
Knee Jerk Reaction - Both set texts are fundamentally shaped by their contexts of production, distribution and circulation at both a technical, narrative and audience level.
Plan
Production Values
Representation - Stuart Hall - Reception
Conglomeration
Convergence
Cultural Industries
Horizontal and vertical integration, multimedia integration
Curran and Seaton , Power in Media Industries
Livingstone and Lunt - Regulation - Getting increasingly harder to effectively regulate media products.
Humans is broadcast after the watershed.
Les Revenant shown on channel 4 at 9pm
Circulation is going to be fairly low due to cult audience appeal. Even though these are both successful for their genre they are still made to appeal to a cult audience.
Viral marketing for humans
Gemma Chan (Anita) is tight-casted
Les Revenants trailer is far more dramatised than the actual show to get a more international appeal. Purposely misleading to get a larger audience.
Humans persona synthetics adds to the hyperreal themes of the tv show The audience cannot differentiate between reality and fiction. Example : the 'return your synth' label. Themes of paranoia.
Intertextual references are used to appeal to larger audiences with relation to the Terminator. Night of the Living Dead references to Les Revenants.
Both of these texts are subversive to appeal to a niche audience
For a mass audience appeal. Both texts feature relatable middle class families. Stereotypical British Middle Class family is a binary opposition to the Stereotypical French Middle Class family.
Humans 4OD Channel 4 - Channel 4 has a subversive alternative target audience
Les Revenants Canal Plus
Moving to digital streaming has threatened traditional media.
Humans overall budget for series 1: £12 Million
Humans opening episode viewership: 6.1 Million
Steven King endorsed Les Revenants.
British Remake of Humans ensures a bigger mainstream British audience. Changes include language and location. The look of the actors also changes.
Les Revenant budget is £11.5 million - clear it is French from the alps.
Channel 4 are selling audiences.
TV industry is an industry motivated by profit and power. Humans are trying to rival Doctor Who and Black Mirror.
Clear , standardised production. Todorov - equilibrium - disequilibrium - restoration - equilibrium. Disruption and restoration of equilibrium.
Humans has a range of clear and identifiable character arcs.
Cliff hanger is a hermeneutic code.
Media products are always standardised products (apart from Adbusters)
In what ways are Humans and Les Revenants shaped by specialised forms of production, distribution and circulation?
Knee Jerk Reaction - Both set texts are fundamentally shaped by their contexts of production, distribution and circulation at both a technical, narrative and audience level.
Plan
Production Values
Representation - Stuart Hall - Reception
Conglomeration
Convergence
Cultural Industries
Horizontal and vertical integration, multimedia integration
Curran and Seaton , Power in Media Industries
Livingstone and Lunt - Regulation - Getting increasingly harder to effectively regulate media products.
Humans is broadcast after the watershed.
Les Revenant shown on channel 4 at 9pm
Circulation is going to be fairly low due to cult audience appeal. Even though these are both successful for their genre they are still made to appeal to a cult audience.
Viral marketing for humans
Gemma Chan (Anita) is tight-casted
Les Revenants trailer is far more dramatised than the actual show to get a more international appeal. Purposely misleading to get a larger audience.
Humans persona synthetics adds to the hyperreal themes of the tv show The audience cannot differentiate between reality and fiction. Example : the 'return your synth' label. Themes of paranoia.
Intertextual references are used to appeal to larger audiences with relation to the Terminator. Night of the Living Dead references to Les Revenants.
Both of these texts are subversive to appeal to a niche audience
For a mass audience appeal. Both texts feature relatable middle class families. Stereotypical British Middle Class family is a binary opposition to the Stereotypical French Middle Class family.
Humans 4OD Channel 4 - Channel 4 has a subversive alternative target audience
Les Revenants Canal Plus
Moving to digital streaming has threatened traditional media.
Humans overall budget for series 1: £12 Million
Humans opening episode viewership: 6.1 Million
Steven King endorsed Les Revenants.
British Remake of Humans ensures a bigger mainstream British audience. Changes include language and location. The look of the actors also changes.
Les Revenant budget is £11.5 million - clear it is French from the alps.
Channel 4 are selling audiences.
TV industry is an industry motivated by profit and power. Humans are trying to rival Doctor Who and Black Mirror.
Clear , standardised production. Todorov - equilibrium - disequilibrium - restoration - equilibrium. Disruption and restoration of equilibrium.
Humans has a range of clear and identifiable character arcs.
Cliff hanger is a hermeneutic code.
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