Immediately from the beginning of the film, a dominant theme that can be explored is the idea of Teen Punishment; which is ultimately emphasized at the end, since the whole idea of the film was that they were each sacrificed to god for their sins committed in the real world, such as pre-martial sex by the 'whore' character Jules and the 'jock' character Curt, as well as the indulgence of drugs and alcohol. Since the first character to die in the movie is Jules and the last to die is Dana, who is the 'virgin', it can be implied that the act of promiscuity is a sin and those who are impure must be punished; which also has a great religious reference that is commonly explored in most horror films. Furthermore, the excessive amount of sharp weapons used within the film such as knives, werewolf teeth/claws and unicorn horns all can be seen as a part of phallic imagery, therefore used to penetrate victims and especially immaculate male antagonists. For example, the unicorn is seen to stab a male character; which strips him of his male power and dominance and therefore challenges generic stereotypes of normal horror films, since women are normally stabbed by male antagonists.
At the beginning of my college year I did not have many creative skills to use towards my first college magazine which I produced myself with no extra help. I had already had experience in creativity with using cameras of smart phones but apps such as indesign and photoshop I was not very advanced at. For the college magazine also I did jot do any research ans planning of textual analysis and drafting, which effected the end result massively as I was not aware of the conventional layouts or colouring therefore it did not match existing college magazines. Also, since I did not do any drafting my first draft was my final draft and I had no practice so the magazine was not professional looking. However, for my music magazine there was a bit of research and planning completed so, I was able to gather conventional components that I could include/copy to make the magazine more recognisable to the chosen genre which was pop. For example, pop music magazines have bright and bold colours, the
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