I created a collage of old vampire movie posters on a website called Fotor. I wanted to show the similarities between a lot of the posters to show the typical conventions that the posters show of the horror genre. In the old vampire films, there always seems to be a female character that is the main focus of the male vampire, in the posters that have a female in them the male seems to be the dominating one as he's looking over her and protecting them from other people. It's the vampires way of marking their territory. A majority of the posters have the colour red on it which connotes danger and blood. In the 'Vampyres' poster, the vampire has yellow eyes and fangs which are stereotypical features of a vampire. The vampire has blood dripping out of its mouth which shows the audience she's just sunk her fangs into someone. In the 'Near Dark' poster the vampire looks deformed and hideous which is a typical feature of a vampire for the old movies. They often looked hideous and conformed to how a vampire was supposed to look. In two of the posters on the left hand side, the vampires are wearing capes which identify with what vampires wear. Typically now in horror movies vampires aren't easy to identify as they tend to dress like normal people. For example in Twilight Edward Cullen wears normal clothes and goes to school. In the old films involving vampires, the vampires tend to look older and be older compared to modern ones which have vampires who are younger.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Collage Of Old Vampire Movies
I created a collage of old vampire movie posters on a website called Fotor. I wanted to show the similarities between a lot of the posters to show the typical conventions that the posters show of the horror genre. In the old vampire films, there always seems to be a female character that is the main focus of the male vampire, in the posters that have a female in them the male seems to be the dominating one as he's looking over her and protecting them from other people. It's the vampires way of marking their territory. A majority of the posters have the colour red on it which connotes danger and blood. In the 'Vampyres' poster, the vampire has yellow eyes and fangs which are stereotypical features of a vampire. The vampire has blood dripping out of its mouth which shows the audience she's just sunk her fangs into someone. In the 'Near Dark' poster the vampire looks deformed and hideous which is a typical feature of a vampire for the old movies. They often looked hideous and conformed to how a vampire was supposed to look. In two of the posters on the left hand side, the vampires are wearing capes which identify with what vampires wear. Typically now in horror movies vampires aren't easy to identify as they tend to dress like normal people. For example in Twilight Edward Cullen wears normal clothes and goes to school. In the old films involving vampires, the vampires tend to look older and be older compared to modern ones which have vampires who are younger.
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