Three codes of this genre are camera angles these are used to create suspense and fear using closeups and goundlevel angles. Clothing ,hair and makeup are an example of symbolic code this is used to create a horror look to the cast of the film also setting and location another example of symbolic code this helps set the mood and create the fear within the scary backdrop.
Three conventions of this genre are a villain who is usually psychopathic and has his own way of killing his victims there is also a good character who conflicts with the villain and usually overcomes the killer at the end of the film fear is a main convention of horror. Each person has there own version of fear and can be scared by different things but the main aspect to horror is to put fear in to the audience.
The key signifiers in the poster are the red colouring of the word outpost this is the colour of blood and signifies violence also the smear marks beneath the outpost.The word outpost is also a signifier an outpost is a small military compound usually in a remote area hidden from sight setting the scene for a horror movie. The dark black surrounding around the soldiers on the poster signifies that these are not the good guys but the villains the back lighting gives them a demonic evil look and mood.
The denotative levels of meaning in the poster are a group of German soldiers with far from natural faces staring right at the one who is viewing the poster also the eagle with the skull is showing that these are far from average Nazi soldiers from ww2.
The connotative meanings in the poster are Hatred the Nazi soldiers of ww2 Germany were taught to hate everything non German by the dictator Adolf Hitler and these being the living dead there hatred is more intense. another meaning is death these being the living dead means that they were dead soldiers brought to life and are now hunting down there victims.
They are communicating to the audience in a subliminal way the hatred and the madness of the Nazi German regime and the experiments and evilness they exploited.
Jake, the level of detail is pleasing and you are certainly on the right track. Please rememeber to add links to other websites, where you can for support. Also to impress the exam boards add as much images/videos etc as you can.
ReplyDeleteI will make sure that i add imaages that relate to the work i am doing also incorparate links from websites where i got the imformation from and videos to backup the post.
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