Friday, 6 October 2017

Kiss Of The Vampire

Gothic horror film 
1963
Target audience: male heterosexuals 

Generic Conventions:
 Paretic code shows something is about to happen.


Connotative Features:
Females wearing revealing clothes= attraction 
Black-death
Red-blood
Foreign antagonists

By 1963 standards is this is them barely wearing any clothes(underwear).

How the story is told: 

  • Through the use of colours
  • Vampire Costumes- Gothic horror
  • Blood- someone will get hurt
  • Two in white/lighter colours symbolises purity and the innocent characters
  • Symbolic code- the red on the vampire jacket- audience assume there will be death,blood or romance.
  • Character archetypes- Damsel in distress
  • The representation of women in this poster is that there objectified.
  • Male characters aren't objectified or sexualised in this poster unlike women.They aren't standing around barely dressed unlike the females.
  • Binary oppositions- light/dark, evil/innocent, kiss/vampire, male/female, power/helplessness.

Objectification- the process of representation an individual as an object. Takes away someones humanity.

Sexualisation- The process of representing an individual for sex.

Yellow: often used in horror films- meant to make someone feel hungry.

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