Monday, 16 December 2019

Michael's cover work 2nd year: Les Revenants: industry and audience

1 - Integration of media industries


Horizontal integration:


Where a company buys “other companies in the same sector to reduce the competition for audiences”

What are two hypothetical examples of this?

Vertical integration


Where a company buys “up other companies involved in different stages of the production and circulation”

What are two hypothetical examples of this?

Conglomeration


“A conglomerate is a corporation that consists of a group of businesses dealing in different products or services".

“Conglomeration is the process” of a conglomerate being formed.

Again, what are some examples of conglomerates?

Why is conglomeration an agreeable business practice for the media industries?

Citations: Hesmondhalgh, The Cultural Industries (2007:22, 310)

2 - Canal+: a deep dive


Research Canal+, the vertically and horizontally integrated conglomerate that produced and distributed Les Revenants

Make notes on

Ideology
Funding
Scheduling
Ownership
Notable releases
Ethos
Conglomeration
Exports

Possible question: to what extent are the TV shows you have studied shaped by the institutions that produced them?


3 - Audience negotiation 


Access the study episode of Les Revenants. Select a scene that we have not studied in class. Watch it three times. Write the name of the scene and your subsequent notes in your blog.

i) List the media language (mise-en-scene, editing, cinematography etc) that constructs meaning in the scene

ii) Identify the preferred reading and the dominant ideology of the scene (eg. "a deliberately confusing and distressing ideology that positions the audience uncomfortably")

iii) Identify the possible negotiated readings and the oppositional reading.