Notional BBFC rating Revised 28/10/10

If I were to rate this film I would say that it uses no swear words, no drugs, no discrimination, no nudity. But it uses mature themes of death and mistakes, horror and frightening situations, gore and violence in short takes. Sex is implied but not shown. Therefore I would rate it at 12 [BBFC]

Exhibition, Distribution and Target Audience Revised 28/10/10

A cheap horror film such as donkey punch used the distributer of optimum releasing also. Hammer Horror used the distributer of J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors Universal Pictures and Warner Home Video. Twilight's main distributer was Summit Distribution though since my film has no budget I would use Optimum Releasing as in donkey punch.  

The title Mistake is polysemic so the image I use would have to be too to draw the audience in to find out the preffered reading. Twilight's image signifies love which attracts a female audience The ginger hair colour appeals to those that feel as though they are outsiders as ginger signifies this therefore signifies the narrative is emotional and relatable. The pale colours and red eyes of the man however  appeal to mainly men who are interested in gothic horror. The use of youthful characters appeals to a younger audience. A lot of films try to appeal to a younger audience because it is stereotypical for youth to be less sensible with their money. I will use youths and signify love similarly to twilight. However  I will also use the male gaze and blood in mine to appeal to a male audience. I also like the way this poster to the left has used red typography to signify the genre. Like Hot Fuzz did if I were to make this in the real world I might make a game, a website a madam tusaudes exhibit and distribute through deals with McDonalds.  The best way of drawing an audience in is through trailers If I were to make one I only show the pinnacle moments of the equilibrium disequilibrium and leave the resolution polysemic to create narrative enigma. I will have a female voice over and titles in a gothic font to signify the genre as horror/ romance. All the exposition would have to show vampires to appeal to a gothic male audience. Many cheap horror film's use television  nowadays to exhibit their product Zone Horror channel advertise a film a month with their Horror of the Month. The problem with television advertising is that the trailer would have to be re-made or put post watershed.

Alternative Production Company Logo Revised 28/10/10

Deciding a Vampire Image Revised 28/10/10

To start off experimenting with a vampire image I put just the fangs on. I found that the best facial expression was with the mouth just slightly open the more open m mouth was the more the falsness of the teeth was revealed. Also a low angle shows off more of the fangs. This image is too natural and not frightening or believable.

For the next image I I added grey, white and black makeup this made me look more undead and was scarier.

For the next image I added blood this is good because it focuses the audiences attention on the fangs and appeals to a male audience because it signifies violence.

For this next image to the right I wet my hair and spiked it up this signifies teenage well.

Slicking back my hair was like the vampires such as on Dracula but was not realistic or modern in appearance therefore not as believable I will probably use a vampire with dry hair, blood round their mouth, pale make up and red contact lenses.

Gothic Horror in Television Revised 28/10/10

Because TV is lower budget than film and more contained I will look at it to get more ideas for my opening.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Episode 1 [IMDB]

• Begins with a panning long shot of a mansion with and it is dark to signify horror
• The high pitch piano notes are also a signifier of the genre
• The colouring looks slightly black and white to signify the authentic Dracula films and a flashback
• The camera tracks roun a classroom the baroness signfifies fearfullness the desks signify a classroom and the biological mise en scene forboades the narratives of blood thirst.
• The slow violins relax the audience
• The smaishing sound is unpredictable therefore frightens the audience
• The man comes through first which is a stereotypical representation of gender as men are powerfull and brash and signifies he is the protaganist
• The woman is blonde and has a low cut top to appeal to the male gaze
• The 2 are young which is countertypical of the genre and apeals to a younger audience
• They use the false scare of the trap door opening to mislead the audience into the preffered that the girl is a victim
• The girl is counterypically a powerfull vampire
• The red sans serif gothic title signify the genre and the rock music appeals to a teenage audience. 

 Young Dracula Season 1 Episode 1 [IMDB]

• The first shot pan's from the unconventional daylight sky to an english village which is countertypical of the genre and an american audience would not understand the preffered reading of it as it is not stereotypical britain and famous landmarks
• The use of a child's voice signifes it is made for children and the harp signifes a peacfull atmosphere
• The takes are polysemic shots of a village to create narrative enigma that become closer to the setting of the characters
• The binary oposites of Dracula's gothic horror car, the rural village, the harp music and the lightening sound create humour
• From the lightening sound there is a shot of the protaganists face saying "I'm a vampire" which is counterypical because it is a normal looking child
• The sound of a choir and low piano notes begins and wee see the special effekt of a castle with a storm above it.

True Blood Season 1 Episode 1 [IMDB]

• Begins with counterypical upbeat music and the shot of traveling up road at night
• Then a counterypical shot of a woman driving with a man sleeping the shot is a two shot signifying they are in a relationship
• The female is dressed in a low cut top, flirtatios and blonde to appeal to the male gaze she expresses her teeth a lot which signifies she could be a vampire
• A sexual activity is signified by a cut away shot of the bans face and woman smiling at him
• The use of a sexual actitvity and 20-30 year old actors signifies the inteded audience is 16-40
• The signify that the universe within the camera is fantasy by the use of a sign wich says "We have tru blood" and a news inteview with a vampire.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 1 [IMDB]

• The man is stereotypically driving
• Conventionall it is dark and a mysterios object is stood in the road
• The use of the windscreen crach signifes it's high budget
• The use of 20-30 year old actors and violence signifies its for a 16-40 year old audeice mal and low class
• The music is rock music to apeal to a younger audience
• The use of a smashed windscreen signifies the production is high budget
• The music pitch lowers and slows as the realisation intenisifies
• The blolnde female stereotpycally cries and is a victim who stays in the car and calls for help while the male goes out to have a look
• The slow music settles the audience and get's them unready for the realisation the body is a vampire and is about to jump up and bite the male
• The vampireness is signified by a close up on the biting
• The titles are red and sans serif to signify the genre

Gothic Horror in Literature Revised 28/10/10

Gothic Horror began in the 18th Century as a genre of horror that combines both romance and horror. it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel

The Castle of Otranto [WIKI]

• 3 people get married but the groom is crushed by a helmet that falls from the sky
• Another lord desperatly marries the bride becasue he believes the grooms death was a signifier of his own downfall
• The bride escapes to a castle with the help of a peasant
• The lord orders the killin of the peasant
• The peasant helps the bride escape to a church and as the peasant lifts his shirt to be killed the lord realises the peasant is his son
• They are interupted in the killing by knights who beg for the bride
• The lord  rushes of to free the bride from the castle where he thinks she is
• The lords daughter frees the peasant from being locked up
• The peasant goes to the church where the bride is
• The peasant hides the bride in a cave and fights on of the knights
• He wounds the knights who is the brides father
• The lord stabs the bride thinking it is his daughter
• The peasant is then revealed to be the true Lord of the land who marries the bride

The narrative is unlike today's gothic horror because the characters are all human. However it does invovle castles, churches and a sense of class and power.

The first use of vampires was used in WAKE NOT THE DEAD by Johann Ludwig Tieck but the first famous vampire story was:

The Vampyre by John William Polidori [WIKI]

• Aubrey meets the mysterious Lord Ruthven
• Aubrey accompanies Ruthven to Rome, but leaves him after Ruthven seduces the daughter of a mutual acquaintance
• Aubrey becomes attracted to Ianthe
• Ianthe tells Aubrey about the legends of the vampire
• Ruthven arrives at the scene and shortly thereafter Ianthe is killed by a vampire
• The pair are attacked by bandits and Ruthven is mortally wounded.
• Ruthven then begins to seduce Aubrey's sister while Aubrey, helpless to protect his sister, has a nervous breakdown.
• Ruthven and Aubrey's sister are engaged to marry on the day the oath ends. Just before he dies, Aubrey writes a letter to his sister revealing Ruthven's history, but it does not arrive in time. Ruthven marries Aubrey's sister, kills her on their wedding night, and escapes

As you can see male again dominates and hierachy is shown now the dominant figure is the vampire yet it still contains elements of love.

One of the most famous Gothic Horror stories is the story of Frankenstein.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly [WIKI]

 Walton tells his sister the story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature as Frankenstein tells it to him. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship.
Unfortunately, the ship becomes trapped in ice.
One day, the crew observes a being in the stature of a giant man in the distance on a dogsled. Frankenstein was in pursuit of his monster, when all but one of his dogs from his dogsled died.
He broke apart his dogsled to make oars to row an ice-raft toward the vessel.
Hours later they find Frankenstein, weak and in need of sustenance, near the ship.
Saved by the kind occupants of the ship, Frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion and recounts to Walton his story, warning Walton of the wretched effects of allowing one's ambition to push one to aim beyond what one is capable of achieving.

• Victor Frankenstein (a scientist) is raised by a wealthy family and has an interest in science
• He studies how life decay's and his mother dies from scarlett fever
• He makes the monster and brings it to life but frightened by its apearance he runs away
• His friend is murdered by the monster
• The monster becomes affraid of humans and lives in a cottage he becomes educated and realised his loneliness
• The monster seeks to befriend people even abducting a little boy for companytrying to silence him he kills the boy
• He demands Frankestein makes him a female companion
• Frankestein is unsure another monster could do more harm so the monster gets mad and kills somone else and Frankestein is imprisoned after prison he lives with his father
• The monster kills Frankensteins wife and with grief kills his father
• Frankenstein agress to pusue the monster untill one of them gets killed they end up in the Artic

This was one of the first Gothic Horror stories to include a character that was victim to their power. It's interesting that the narrative is often not known yet the monster is. It is because of the association of Frankenstein the Novel as including the unique significant monster that Frankenstein became known as the monster's name. With so many intertextual references of Frankenstein and Dracula the narrative becomes lost but the charaters remain.

Dracula by Bram Stoker [WIKI]

• Jonathan Harker travels to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle to get legal support to Dracula for a real estate transaction overseen by Harker's employer
• Harker falls under the spell of three wanton female vampires, the Brides of Dracula
• He is saved at the last second by the Count, because he wants to keep Harker alive to obtain needed legal advice
• He arrives on the shores of Whitby all of the crew are missing
• Dracula is tracking Harker's devoted fiancée, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her friend, Lucy Westenra
• Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously.
• Van Helsing immediately determines the cause of Lucy's condition
• Lucy and her mother are attacked by a wolf. Mrs Westenra, who has a heart condition, dies of fright, and Lucy apparently dies soon after.
• Van Helsing, knowing that this means Lucy has become a vampire stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic
• After Dracula learns of Van Helsing and the others' plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting—and biting— Mina at least three times.
• It is only possible to detect Dracula's surroundings when Mina is put under hypnosis by Van Helsing
• Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania
• Van Helsing's group, who manage to track him down just before sundown and destroy[3] him by shearing "through the throat" with a knife and stabbing him in the heart also with a knife. Dracula crumbles to dust, his spell is lifted and Mina is freed from the marks.

This is the most famous vampire and therefore although again not an origninal part of the plot this vampire became known as Lord of Vampires because of his fame. All these stories are written pre 20th century Twilight is a book written recently that induced the film.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer [WIKI]

• Bella who recently moved attracts a lot of competition over her from boy's
• On her first day she is sat next to Edward Cullen who is repuled by her and has to move away
• Bella is nearly run over but Edward saves her
• Bella wunders why he saved her and eventually workes out he is a vampire they fall in love
• James another vampire want's to hunt Bella for sport
• Before she is killed Edward rescues her
• Realising she is bitten Edward sucks the venom from Bella's hand Bella want's to be a vampire but Edward refuses

What made this appeal is because the story is set in a highschool and involves the sweet man vs an unpleasant man which is similar to the narrative of Rom Com's and is relational to a modern audience. Also it appeals to a female audience because the male is considerate about his dominance.

Revised Narrative Revised 28/10/10

Our second narrative was to have the male vampire stalking the girl chasing her and eventually catching up with her and biteing her. The girl wakes up out of a daydream in a classroom and sees the boy she bit on the other side of the classroom  looking embarresed about his mistake of going out with her. She is ashamed by her mistake she couldn't help biteing him but she does she is a victim to her vampireness like in Twillight.