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Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Outside The Mall

This scene from dawn of the dead is when the zombies have just started taking over the world, they escape them by hiding in the mall. This uses institutional context as consumerism in america is popular and the film tries to get this across.

This also uses the narrative loneliness and isolation as the characters are all alone in the mall together and isolated from the outside world.

This scene uses Propp & Todorov's narrative theory as the equilibrium of the film is disrupted by the zombie attack on the world. This was proven in their book Morphology of the Folktale (1928). The common characters that reoccur in most films is the economy of narration which is the zombie outbreak, the goal-directed protagonist which is the survivors such as Anna, Kenneth and Michael. The antagonist the zombies.

Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Escape On Boat

This scene is one of the final ones in the film, where the survivors escape the zombies on the boat leaving Michael behind as been bitten by one of the zombies. This scene uses Cinematography of Close Ups on Anna's face to show the emotions on her face when she says goodbye to Michael who she has fallen for since the zombie apocalypse began. The scene also uses Historical Context as the american flag is shown in the background to depict freedom of them escaping from the zombies. Which could mean the terrorists as the war in Afghanistan began about the time the film was released and the terrorists are depicted as the zombies in the film. This proves Janet Staiger Audience Studies (Interpreting Films 1992) which is that different audiences react differently to the same film, as the audience at the time will still be concerned about terrorists as 9/11 is still in their minds so the flag in the background shows that America is freedom from the zombies in the film.

Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Monica Chainsaw Scene

The first scene from Dawn Of The Dead 2004 is when Monica gets chainsawed to death whilst trying to escape the shopping mall and fending off the zombies. This scene uses body horror/gore which is an institutional context as loads of gore in horror films is popular in the 2000's as gore is used in other areas such as video games and the News so everyone is used to the gore. It also uses Cinematography as it uses Close ups and Expressionist Angles get across the panic in the scene and the claustrophobic it makes the audience feel.

This scene proves Thomas Schatz Theory Hollywood Genres 1979 as the gore in the film highlights the film is a gory horror film so the right audiences watch the film and appeal to their target audiences.

The scene uses creepy locations and Low key lighting to make the gore more scary as emphasises it as is the only thing you can see in the film.

Friday The 13th Trailer Review

Name of Film: Friday The 13th

Year Released: 1980

Genre Of Trailer: Horror/Mystery

The plot of the trailer is that it goes through all of the murders in the film counting each one dies, until the thirteenth one when it ends with the name of the film Friday the 13th and telling you to go watch the film in the cinemas.

The good points of the trailer is that the music used in the trailer adds emphasis to the trailer itself building up the tension and adding a bit of mystery to how and why the thirteen murders occur during the plot of the film. It also doesn't give away much of the plot of the film which allows you to watch the trailer and get enticed to watch the film but unsure of what is going to actually happen throughout the film.

The bad aspects of the trailer is that it lacks any sort of horror in the trailer and is more like a mystery trailer so when people watch the trailer they will think  that it is a mystery trailer where in fact it will contain horror aspects that the audience may not enjoy. It also gives away who dies in the film so when the characters get introduced in the film you immediately know that they are about to die which kind of ruins the tense of seeing who dies in the film. There is also bad editing used at the end of the trailer which looks amateurish so  makes people think that the film is going to be amateurish overall which may lead to less people wanting to watch the film when it is shown in the cinemas or on DVD.

The score i would give this trailer is a four out of ten as it doesn't have any horror aspects in it what so ever and also looks like it was made by amateurs so isn't going to be as good as the other horror films like halloween or dawn of the dead.