EW: Second Film Analysis

Dexter (2009)

Dexter although is a TV series, has many of the same techniques used to connote a horror/ thriller genre that we want to achieve in our film opening.

Representation & Ideology

•  Only one social group is shown as only one character is shown throughout the sequence and the social group shown is a middle aged man with connotations of a murderer.
• The values and beliefs that are shown in the sequence are that everything that this character does is murder related.
• Semiotics as a framework shows how representation is constructed in the sequence through the use of red blood whilst he is shaving and cutting of meat when he is cooking which all reinforce the semiotic framework.

Media Audiences

• Dexter is aimed at people from 18 to 35 so the target audience is sitting right in the horror/ thriller genre target audience range.
• I think that the preferred audience reading for this sequence is that Dexter is the main character and has two personalities due to the fact that everything he does is normal but there are strong connotations of murder.
• As a British teenager I read this text as a horror thriller genre with large connotations of murder and deceptions, also having bi-personalities making him a complex character. I think that my view has been affected by the media but not specifically to my age or gender.