Thursday, 2 April 2009

Haloween

Iconography:Halloween has many iconic visual images. Firstly one aspect that is very iconic is the fact that it is a bunch of teenagers who the whole film is based upon.Secondly their is a psycho killer who wears a mask so that he is not identified and caarries a big knife around with him, which he uses to kill all his victims with.Thirdly the characters who make out got jilled first.Last of all i thought it was iconic about the psycho killer going after a lonely babysitter.Style:Setting:*The suspicious and murder scenes are always set at night time*The murder scenes always take place in a house where the parents are away and a group of teenagers are together or someone is babysitting the parents kids.Narrative:Characters:*Final Girl*Group of teenage friends*Masked psycho killerThemes:Psycho killer v Final GirlSane v InsaneAudience Response:Audience is frightened yet excited and looks forward to somebody getting killed. They take sadistic and voyeuristic pleasures.

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