“Building Better Worlds”: The Rise of Alien’s Online Marketing Campaigns
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Walden, Kim
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Abstract
As transmedia film franchising developed with its characteristic reboots, sequels, prequels, and shared cinematic universes, promotion costs rose in an increasingly crowded and competitive marketplace. As a consequence, film marketeers have devised correspondingly creative approaches to promotion using the online environment and social media. This chapter considers the evolution of online film marketing, as blockbusters transformed into transmedia franchises expanding their storytelling across media platforms. Through an examination of the award-winning promotional campaigns for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), the chapter will consider how transmedia film marketing campaigns have grown to include fictional evil corporate website worlds, “exclusive” events at media conventions (cons), personalized advertising, experiential advertising like VR simulations, and franchise universe sites. This investigation concludes that the reason Alien’s transmedia marketing is so compelling lies in its close proximity to the film’s production. As a consequence, these marketing campaigns are arguably becoming as entertaining as the films themselves. So, one of Alien’s legacies is that its “advertising is part of the picture.”
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2023-03-23Published in
Alien LegaciesPublished version
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197556023.003.0006Other links
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