As soon as the the film starts, you immediately know that it is a media res as it doesn't have a beginning. Two protagonists are shown in the car having a conversation and making use of the technique, shot-reverse-shot. By using this technique, the audience are able to see both of the characters faces and emotions. Furthermore, you can see that they are both portraying happy and flirty emotions.
However, by listening to the music and seeing the woman's facial expressions, the audience feels as though the woman is quite mysterious and sneaky. Also because she isn't telling the man where they are going. The music is fast and mysterious which can be seen as representation of a vampires characteristics and it gets the audience intrigued, keeping their attention.
The credits that have been added are in a font and colour that matches the genre. this is because the red font connotes blood, gore and anger. The clear, boldness of the writing represents horror and demonstrates that it is not a comedy or romance. By thinking about fonts and colours for credits is key iconography that plays a part in the making of the genre.
After this, the camera immediately films the woman leading the oblivious man through what looks like a butchers factory. However, the camera is filming from a side profile of the two characters instead of filming face on. This is so that the viewers can see more of the setting and what they are walking through. As a result of this, the audience is still finding the scene quite odd as they can see hundreds of dead animals hanging up. The mise-en-scene is appropriate for a horror as it is a weird setting, pale lighting and the music continues to be quite fast, building up the suspense. Non-diegetic sound of chain saws has been included which gives the audience an idea of what is happening to these animals.
By looking at this shot, this presents the characters personalities without the need of speech. It shows that the man is a stereotypical American who has no clue on where is, what he's doing or who he's with. It portrays that men can be thoughtless when in the presence of a female. The woman has red, vibrant hair, pale skin and shows no emotion, letting the audience realise that her mood in the car was fake. It guides people to thinking that she is going to do something bad to him or take him somewhere dangerous as she herself seems dangerous.
As she progresses closer to the door with the security guard, you hear the sound of club/party music playing making the audience wonder even more about what is on the other side of the door. She shouts out something to the guard in a different language which could be swedish or another language that vampires are known to speak. This confuses the man even more and as a result of his worrying, the woman suddenly kisses him. This stereotypically represents men as being able to be tamed by women by women doing the smallest of actions. The confusion of the audience continues as they wonder why there would even be a guard in a butchers. The guard then opens the door.
They walk through and are immediately introduced with the busy atmosphere of a club that has pounding, blaring and fast music with hundreds of dancing people. Within the filming of this, there are fast shots, slow motion shots, out of focus shots and close up shots. This then shows what the club atmospheres are like.
You also notice a close up of a hook hanging from the ceiling as the camera circles around it. This is shown to support the horror genre and makes you reflect back to when they characters were outside, walking in between dead animals and humans on HOOKS. It is difficult but some may notice a few people wearing bags.
The vibrant red head joins another girl in all white which connotes an angel. The blond American man then joins them but is roughly pushed back but the character in all white. The woman who the man came with is not fazed by this and now ignores the man.
I have also taken into consideration the way the people are acting with each other. most of them seem to be acting quite sexual with one another. This then links their promiscuous actions to vampires as vampires stereotypically have this characteristic.
After the man has been shoved into the middle of the crowd, he suddenly feels something drip on his hand. This drop is blood which is shown by using a close up, point of view shot of his hand. The camera gradually lowers, soon revealing the ceiling as the music starts to become faster. The shot then changes to the DJ as the lights behind him light up to reveal two disturbing words, 'Blood Bath'.
There is then a close up of sprinklers on the ceiling with suddenly release a red substance which the audience has no gathered that it is blood. The people then liven up even more as we have now gathered that the American man is surrounded by vampires. Close up shots of the vampires are taken as theystart to hiss and show their fangs at the man who is now terrified. These close up shots are used for effect. Non-diegetic sounds for the vampires have been added such as hisses which make the scene scarier.
Someone punches the man which is shown in a point of view shot which makes the audience feel as though they are getting punched. The man falls to the floor and the camera drops down to his level, catching him crawling out of the crowd. As he gets out, he is still crawling until he comes across a pair of black, leather boots and black trousers which do not have one drop of blood on them. as he looks up, the music lowers in volume greatly but is still playing faintly in the background. The sprinklers then stop as well as the music and the only music that is playing is faint, slow and suspenseful.
The camera angle is looking down on the American man as he looks up at the man in black who we are yet to know if he is good or bad. the camera then jumps onto the mans waist and travels upwards revealing that the man is wearing all black, leather clothes. The camera is now low and looking upwards which makes the audience feel as though the mysterious man is tall and powerful. All of the people have stopped dancing now and clear a walk way for him which gives us the idea that the man is there leader. We then see the mans full appearance.
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