Summary of Intertextuality used in website

1.   "I love the smiths" - this is a very iconic quote from the film '500 days of Summer', in which the main character and his love interest, Summer, bond over their shared fondness for The Smiths.       As well as this, the quote has become an infamous 'sound' on TikTok, with over 180,000 videos using it as a backing track, and the most popular video having 36.1 million views. My media literate audience should understand that the quote is from the film '500 days of Summer', but a preferred reading of this reference would be that they know it from TikTok

 

2.    2.  The five albums that are listed as some of the bands favourite and most inspiring, are famous indie rock albums that suit the style of music that LOSBOYS produces

 

3.    3.  The stick man holding the grenade is a reference to the rock band GreenDay whose cover art for their single ‘American Idiot’ features a bleeding grenade that is shaped like a heart. Audiences who have a wide cultural competency will understand this reference to infamous rock band, GreenDay, however for those who don’t, when clicked, the GIF causes a lightbox to appear that explains the significance of GreenDay to LOSBOYS

4.    4.  The playlist that I have made which LOSBOYS encourages their audience to stream is designed to resemble the film posters from the A24 movie ‘mid90’s’, a coming of age about a group of skater boys, whose cinematography and narrative I have used to inspire the music video itself. The audience of A24 is described as media literate and therefore my audience should understand the reference