History Of Vampires

What are vampires?

The idea of vampires has been changed dramatically over time. The vampires of folk history were considered as repughtent creatures, something to be feared. The were seen as cruel creatures or corpses they only had one motive; blood. They are never seen in their vampire state and are typically killed by 'holy water', 'sunlight' and 'a stake to the heart'. They are typically called 'Night walkers' due to the fact that sunlight is their biggest weakness.

Bram Stoker creates a new image for Vampires
In 1987 Bram Stoker with the publishing of his hit novel Dracula completely transformed the typical view of Vampires. The image that he invented completely contrasted the original view, and turned the conventions of a vampire to a lowly sub-human parasite. The new image of the vampire is a fantastically established image of seduction and is almost omnipotent in his knowlege and power over humans. He is also vulnerable to the beauty and innocence of attractive mortal women, who he must pursue, corrupt and discard.The new literary vampire is incredibly popular, as the attractive, evil protagonist of the new Victorian Gothic novel. He becomes an enduring symbol of the anti hero.Some writers have suggested that the Dracula novel represents the underlying sexual repression of Victorian society and the desire for male domination and the subjugation of women.

Todays Vision of Vampires
From films and TV Programmes such as Twilight and Vampire Diaries people nowadays seem to adore vampires rather than be afraid of them. There is a big contrast of how they are presented now compared to how they were presented when they first became popular. For example, now instead of Vampires seeming maniulative towards women, they are falling in love with them. This is causing a great amount of fan population, by the way that the media is attracting towards the teenage audience. They are also changing the typical weaknesses that a vampire would have, for example, in Twilight, go against the typical approach to vampires burning in the sun, but they turn...glittery. Which completely contrasts the typical 'Night walker' approach to the genre. Vampire Diaries sticks to the original approach in a way, they still burn in the daylight, but they use "day rings" which protect them from the sun.

When Vampires originated they were aimed towards the older audience, which the creators of Twilight and Vampire Diaries completely went against. Another TV company stuck to the original audience and created a view of Vampires with more of a vicious approach. The vampires in Twilight and Vampire Diaires, are more toned down. They don't tend to eat humans and are considered 'vegetarians' in a way by only drinking from animals, where as in True Blood you see the nitty gritty approach to vampires, which is that they are cold blooded killers.

Books about Vampires

Because of the wide amount of popularity for vampires there has been a large amount of different books that have been created towards vampires, but they all tend to follow a similar storyline. The Twilight films first originated as books, and this is where the popularity first grew greatly for this kind of genre. After all of this, more and more books about vampires started popping up around the globe.



Influential Videos

Influential Music Videos on Prezi

Description of new Media video idea

This is our group basically explaining our new music video idea.

Epiphany!

After looking closely at our current music idea choice of "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepson, we decided that it would possibly not be sufficient enough for us to achieve the grades that my group and I are aiming for. Therefore, after some close analysis we have decided that perhaps we should change our music video to one that we are sure that would contain everything to match the criteria of the higher grades.

The problems that we were facing with our original idea was first and foremost that we didn't want it to appear to be another "fan video", we believe that from an editing aspect of the video, it wouldn't have suited the criteria. We also experienced problems with the cast that we were using. Because it was to be a montage video of different people lip syncing along to the song, we decided that we would be relying on too many people, and it was too much of a risk of people letting us down by dropping out at the last minute.

Overall, we have decided more on a music video that will help us to be able to reach the grades that we are aspiring towards, and hopefully we will find more enjoyable to produce and edit in the process!

Inspiration Ideas

Video Comparisons! on Prezi

Change of Idea!

As a group, we decided to completely change our idea!
We decided this, based on the fact that we wanted to pick a type of video that would attract a wider audience, the idea of the party wouldn't particularly attract the right audiences, it has also been done quite frequently, so we wanted to do something new that not many other people have done before.

So basically, the plan for our A2 Media video, is a montage idea. We're using the idea of ameture idea of recording.

 In the video we will include various different themes and ideas such as
- friends
- memories
- birthdays
- experiences

 All of these things will be incorporated into a big montage, of our idea of 'bliss'. All of these things make us happy. We are making the video based around our family and friends from our point of view, as apose to my group and I sitting in front of a camera for three minutes. We are also using the idea of having our friends lip singing along to a funny song, to add a comedy theme to the video.

Music Considerations

We originally decided on an acoustic feel to our music, but then after some consideration we thought that we'd prefer our music choice to be more up beat and happy, for example pop music of today. We are considering an unsigned artist, and are going to write our own lyrics to suit the type of video that we have chosen.

Results from Questionaire

The results from the questionaire that we asked are the following. Majority of the people that we asked were aged 15-18 for our questionaire, from this we had an array of different results, for example four liked pop, two liked indie and the rest suggestied other.The other restuls that we recieved were from people ages 46-50, they suggested that they enjoyed pop music over the other choices that were suggested. One of the people suggested that they enjoyed coutry, and the other said they enjoyed reggae. Overall from this I gained the knowledge that when it comes to music, you aren't going to attract people from all ages. I think it depends on the personal preferences of a person.