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Marxism We are constantly being manipulated by an elite ruling class Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

"It is essential for a TV programme to simultaneously target both mass and specialised audiences" Explore this statement with reference to  Les Revenants Thirty minutes I agree it is essential for a TV programme to simultaneously target both mass and specialised audiences. The term 'Mass Audience' came from the mass broadcasting on television in the early days of its creation. With only a few available television channels, the content had to appeal to a wide range of people and include different ways for this wide range of people to connect with the content. Now that narrow broadcasting is a thing of the past with more TV channels, online streaming services (e.g. Netflix ) and piracy existing, there has been space for more specialised audience shows to be made. These are often referred to as 'cult' shows with an intense following behind it and fans who engage with the show in more ways than just watching it, for example, fan-fictions, fan art, ...

How does the industry that makes this product address the needs of mass and specialised audiences through targeting? Is it possible for a TV programme to simultaneously target both mass and specialised audiences? A mass audience is a huge and difficult to define audience. A soap opera like Eastenders is a mass audience show.  However, now it is harder to define something as a mass audience because we have so many ways of watching the shows. e.g. tv channel, online / on demand, piracy Council supereur de l'audiovisual - French regulation board sex scene - two french people over age of consent, don't see any explicit action (go under a cover and make a few noises), consensual sex, not something to make it R or be under investigation for child pornography / simulated child pornography. To make it appeal to a mass audience with a negotiated reading it is full of hermeneutic codes. The mass audience appeal with the negotiated reading also relates to the pick and mi...

Canal+ (pronounced Canale Plu) Ideology Funding  Scheduling  Ownership Notable releases Ethos  Conglomeration Exports  Canal+  ( Canal Plus)  is a French premium television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the  Canal+ Group , which in turn is owned by  Vivendi .  Canal+ is a subscription based channel like HBO. It is a premium channel with prestige and developed content.  Les Revenants' The EU has a funding programme, which called 'Creative Europe'. This allows for European TV shows to be able to get grants to support production and distribution and to allow them to be made. 'Les Revenants' in particular was awarded a grant for 450,000 euros for season 1 and 1 million euros for season 2. Aired on Chanel 4 in Britian at 9pm 9pm on Sundance Channel in America 8:50pm on Canal+ Canal + Canal+ is a premium TV channel that needs to be paid for on a subscription payment. Canal+ is owned...

Initial opening shots of the alps situates the show instantly. Themes of exoticism (for international audiences) and a popular holiday destination for French audiences. Montage  of coach interior. School trip: an instantly recognisable situation for both young and old  audience  members. Coach crash and the death of schoolchildren is a potentially alarmist and extreme opening event. Iconography of  death  and  impermanence . The scene of the butterfly breaking free from the glass is a particularly effective symbolic and hermeneutic code. Rural  setting  is emphasised through  montage . Drained, desaturated  MES  made possible through  post production colour grading. Opening credits use a restrained,  low-key and atypical opening theme for a horror TV show. The lake pub - a stereotypical, even  hyperreal  location. Intertextual references to similar locations, such as  the Double R diner in  Twin ...