The document discusses the use of lighting and shadows in four vampire films: Nosferatu, 30 Days of Night, Let the Right One In, and Only Lovers Left Alive. It notes that Nosferatu was influential in setting the tone for low-key lighting and shadowy figures in vampire films. 30 Days of Night and Let the Right One In both feature periods of darkness when sinister events occur. Only Lovers Left Alive takes place mostly in a dark apartment. Overall, the document concludes that vampire movies generally employ low-key lighting, shadows, and dark décor.

2. NOSFERATU
Nosferatu is a 1922 German vampire
film, it is said this film set the tone for
low key lighting and figures/things in
the shadows for vampire films we see
today. The films is a silent movies so
music and lighting is used to tell the
story and show emotions. Lighting is
especially important in this film because
the lighting becomes the only means of
highlighting or blending in features that
the producer deems more or less
important. The use of shadows are used
a lot throughout this film, it is used to
add a sense of danger/ the unknown.

3. 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
30 days of night is a 2007
horror/thriller about a town that
get has a 30 day period of polar
light for the winter, therefore the
entire film is set in the low key
lighting however some moments
are darker than others usually
around the time something
dark/sinister is going to or has
happened. Like Nosferatu the idea
of ‘living in the shadows’ is used.
The only light throughout the film
is by torch or candles.

4. LET THE RIGHT ONE
IN
Let the right one in is a
2008 Swedish film, like
most typical modern day
vampire movies it uses the
idea that horror elements
happen at night this is
because typically the dark is
seen to be scarier or
vampires can’t go out in the
light, in the day no major
thriller like activities
happen.

5. ONLY LOVERS LEFT
ALIVE
Only lovers left alive is a 2013
film. The film doesn’t
particularly change its lighting
throughout in fact most of it
is filed without the main
characters apartment however
this is a dark place and the
décor in it adds to this.

6. Overall I think typically lighting in vampire movies is low key, it also
uses lots of shadows and dark décor.
CONCLUSION

7. Overall I think typically lighting in vampire movies is low key, it also
uses lots of shadows and dark décor.
CONCLUSION