Vampire Horror

Media Coursework on Vampires

Amelia 200 year old vampire & has been on the run ever since she was framed over a terrible crime(broke the sacred rule of vampires code) she must find a way of proving her innocents

before The solar eclipse happens or else she is doomed.

Daniel Sherman is vampire but no on can tell. he looks ordinary. He craves human flesh but instead of killing the normal way he finds people who want to die and drains them of all their blood.

Propp theory for shrek/enchanted

Enchanted: Hero – Edward/Robert Heroine – Giselle Villain – mother Father – chipmunk/ Robert Shrek: Hero - shrek Heroine – fiona Helper - Donkey Villain – lord farquad

Miss Downton's Subway work

Q: Who did you chose to include in your advertising campaign and why. What was your chosen representation of these people?

A: For out advertising campaign we decided to use 3 different types of characters: the hippy, the Muslim girl and the rocker. We chose these characters because they all have bug differences with each other except one thing and that's subway, they all love subway. That's is also the reason we came up with the slogan "No matter who you are"

To represent subway as a food brand that everyone can enjoy.

Q: What decisions did you make which helped to construct this representation? 

A: We decided that we didn't want the to make it over the top, we new the types of characters we wanted but we narrowed them down and made the image simple but memorable. 

Q: How do you feel your chosen representation will support subways brand image?

A: I feel that out image will support the brand image because it's a positive image showing no matter what race, colour, Social background etc ever one bonds over a subway something everyone shares in common and that's why I believe it's the best image to use for your brand.

Horror movie codes and conventions

I watch the horror/comedy spoof film 

Scary movie (as I am a scaredy cat).

Codes and conventions of this film:

Sacrifice lamb/Someone killed in first 5 mins - In scary movie the girl is alone at home getting ready to watch a scary movie and then get a phone call and get murdered, this sets the mood for the rest of the movie. We also get a glimpse of either the killer or his style of killing

Accidental trip while running away from killer - this is also done in this movie on many occasions to make the audience frustrated. It also makes sure that the victim dies

The fake scare - this is done many time in this movie e.g  at the beginning after the girl locks the back door the front door bell rings. Also the part where the girl checks her window and the boy pops up 

This is to make the audience jump, this may happen before the actual murder so the audience doesn't expect the killer cause they thought it was a false alarm.

Investigating an unexpected sound - this is done to build tension and makes the audience afraid because they now what's going to happen next. this is also done on several occasions. 

Abandoned/secluded location -  this is done in scary movie as when they are having a flash back on what happened a year ago they get stuck in the middle of a road and there's no one around. Gives audience a sense of alertness.

Character forgets about threat/ignores threat - they do this horror movies in order not only for the film to progress but also to make us as the audience feel something particular towards those characters 

Victim cowers by door/ window - this is also done In scary movie. It also done so the victim can be killed and to show that the killer has no conscience or love just pure hatred.

Don't listen warning (signs) - this happens on many occasions. This  happens so that the audience feel over the edge.

Character being alone - usually the lest important characters die first so when they are alone we automatically as the audience know is going to happen next. 

Lighting - in scary movie and in most other horror film the use of lighting is crucial, the lighting is usually dark and can't see much so it's mostly black. 

Victims relating deaths to what they did - this is done in scary movie, the victim talks about how it's weird that a murder has happened exactly one year after they killed someone. This make the audience question the killers reasons but Also if the victims are realign victims 

Phone line cut - this happens In many horror movies but not so much in scary movie, except the killer calls the person to tell them he knows what they done and hangs up 

Running upstairs instead of outside -  this is done in scary movie when killer tries to murder one of the main characters. This is done to create tension but also to give character no way to escape.