Revised Narrative

To get the basic idea of a person having a vision we could do either of these:
Have the protaganist having a nightmare
Have the protaganist having a day dream
Have the protaganist seeing things that aren't their

We decided to have the protaganist in a day dream and possibly use a medium still frame like in dawn of the dead and napolean dynamite but in ours she would have a loving look rather than a gormless look to signify romance and appeal to a female audience.

Why a vampire and a female would be out in the middle of nowhere at night:
We could either have them camping.
Not have it at night.
Or have it in a more commonly used area for a teenager.
Perhaps theirs other people and it's a party.

We decided to use the camping idea so we could still have it at night and still stick within the conventions of the genre to frighten our audience.

Why the vampire chases the protaganist.
He loves her.
He cannot help it he's a vampire.
He's a rapist or totally evil.

We decided to include the use of love to appeal to a female audience and we decided to show the vampire as a victim to his vampireness as in Twighlight.We decided to go with a young countertypical vampire because it is easier to create.

Podcast 3- Revised Narrative

Location Scouting

More Gothic Horror (Vampires)

Dracula Prince of Darkness by Terrance Fisher 1966 [IMDB]

• The red gothic sans serif font signifies the genre 
• The picture is surrouned by a smoking frame this signifies that we are looking into the past the smoke also signifies magic and power
• The castle what we origninally see is a strong signifier of the genre often used as this is with darkness, storms and lightening.
• The castle also signifes this film is stet in the past
• The use of an orchestra is more commonly used in pre 1990 films while more modern films have a few intruments and commonly high pitch piano notes
• The orchestra chrashendo's as the action climaxe's
• The villain is stereotypicaly dressed in black, tall, male has slick backed hair, is pale and being male uses violence to control the situation which is also stereotypical.
• Dracula is signified as the protaganist because he is the first character seen.
• The voice over provides exposition.
• Religious imagery of a cross is juxtaposed next to the violence and gore as a shock cut religion commonly used in gothic horror.
• The film uses special effects that a modern audience would not believe because they're used to seeing special effect's that are more advanced. 
• The next scene begins with a female dead which appeals to the male gaze because she is attractive and the woman crying after her is also stereotypical and represents the view of woman at the time.  

Blood Rayne II: Deliverance by Uwe Boll 2007 [IMDB]

• This film begins with a slideshow of sepia images of the wild west 
• It focuses on train pictures and farming pictures to provide exposition although this is still polysemic to create narrative enigma.
• The warm colours and realistic cheerfull pictures is countertypical to the genre.
• When we enter the main set we pan down into a village. 
• They use the binary oposites of a scruffily dressed muscly  cowboy man in a cowboy hat and thick jacket and a suited  fat man with a birefcase and a bowler hat stepping in all the pudles. 
•  They past is signified by the use of sepia pictures at the begining, the use of candle light and their costumes which are formal and invlove hats.
• The use of a setting in the past and a dark candlelite setting is stereotypical to the genre

Twilight by Catherine Hardwicke 2008 [IMDB]

• The scene begins with a voice over signifying that they are the protaganist
• The voiceover is countertypical of the genre because it is a female voice which signifies rom com.
• The use of daylight is also countertypical of the genre but signifies the title.
• The use of a forrest is stereotypical of a genre.
• The dear is an intertextual reference to Bambi.
• The take to begin with is long and pans down onto the dear to signify vulnerability.
• The takes then become shorter as it is chased to signify action.
• They use a flash cut between this and the next scene to signify memory or a cut in time.
• The camera zooms in then on the protaganist in a mysterious setting of the destert.
• The camera pans over to the husband of the protaganist's mother as it's said to signify the camera is her thoughts.

The Satanic Rights of Dracula by Alan Gibson 1973

• It uses upbeat cocktail music to appeal to the audience of the time.
• The typography is sans serif and gothic to signify the genre.
• The trumpets crashendo with the title Dracula.
• The begining shots are of famous landmarks of London to clarify the preffered reading of the setting to a large audience.
• There is an editing effect of a shadow which increases in size.
• The first shot is a long shot of a mansion with a light with a blue filter shone on it to signify horror.
• The arial shot of people in cloakes stood around a star signifieas, satanicness, religioun and the past.
• However this shot is juxtaposed next a shot of a guy in a controll room to anchore that it is the present.
• In the satanic ritual involves a female victim to appeal to the male gaze this is stereotypical of woman and signifies it is for an adult audiecee because it contains nudity.

Brotherhood of Blood by Michael Roesch 2007 [IMDB]

• Begins in a cave to signify the genre.
•  There is a female victim whic is stereotypical and apeals to the male gaze because she is blonde.
• The candle light also signifies horror.
• The use of scruffy clothing signifies the villains are outcasts.
• The use of a blowtorch signifies power.

Casting, Costumes and Makeup

Vampire Stereotype

• Fangs
• Pale
• Red eyes
• Deep voice
• Greased back hair
• 19th Century black coat
• Older
• Powerful and villainous

More Recent Representations of Vampires

• Teenage
• Fangs
• Pale
• Everyday modern clothing
• Red Eyes
• Sexual
  
• A victim to their Vampirism
• Outsider
• Atractive 

Werewolves

• 1/2 Man 1/2 Wolf
• Furry
• Growling
• Snout
• Sharp Teeth
• No Sympathy
• Large
• Angry
• Powerful

Horror Victims

• Blonde
• Atractive
• Useless
• Screaming
• Emotional

Revised Narrative

We know that were going to have the protagonist having having a gothic horror nightmare or vision. It will be either a vampire or a werewolf chasing the protagonist.  The protagonist will wake up and the audience will find out that this vision is real from a bite or a scratch.

We will make it appeal to our teenage audience by having a teenage protagonist, we will appeal to a female audience by suggesting romance with the villain by having a photograph before the chase that shows the protagonist possibly a  female holding the hand of  a male the identity of this person will be signified by a watch which wee will see the villain having to signify the villain is the person in the photograph. The outcome of the chase will have lots of polysemy to create narrative enigma. The chase will be signified as a dream by unusual lighting or echoed sound. The protagonists bedroom will depend on the gender of the protagonist it will need a mirror so that they can find the bite or scratch to signify the dream really happened. The bedroom may also signify the protagonist as a romantic perhaps the romance was lost when the villain became either a vampire or a werewolf.

Our age-group are used to high budget films with lots of special effects so to appeal to our audience we would need to signify as much gore without spending much. Also on a site such as Youtube the most viewed hits are ones of stunts, humor, animals, babies, pranks and music. We may film some animals in the forrest if we can find them it may be insects or birds or a pet cat within the house. The chase may include lots of jumping,  hiding and tripping over. We may record a  non diagetic rock band as this appeals to teenagers too. Our genre appeals to predominantly males so to appeal to females to we have included a female protagonist and romance. Our audience of our original anamatic did not connote the preferred reading of the film as seriously as we hoped therefore we have made ours not silly but not  too dark.

Audience Response

We first screened Biteing by me the audience understood the preffered reading of the narrative once I explained it. Vampire Horror has a large market recently with films like "Twilight" hence is appealed to our audience. However the narrative was not very subtle and could have been less cliched I thought about adding a modern twist such as the vampire has a virus that controlls his mind. I also thought about using a teenage vampire to apeal to my teenage audience as they responded well to this in the animatic. They found some eliments humorous hence I may make the narrative less dark and more beleivable. Another issue is that my origninal narrative is set at night, in a graveyard, in the dark and with a vampire which is both a makeup, setting and lighting challenge that may be hard to achieve.

The Vision by Jonathon Bailey was screened next the audience struggled to denote the preffered reading even once it was explained. They couldn't understand what the vision was of and how they came to meet the vision.

We thought about combining our ideas so that the Vision had a clearer narrative and Biteing had a more subtle narrative. We thought that we could include a teenage girl to appeal to our teenage audience and have her haviong dreams that she is being chased by a vampire. When she wakes she realises has been bitten because she looks in the mirror.