Thirty Days of Night

Narrative

how Setting is important:

- the choice to set a horror film in an Alaskan village 'most northern part of US' and when the sun doesn't rise for a month. So if vampires are real, they would love it there..

how they differ from 'conventional' vampires:

- hunt in a group

- use victim's head as a trophy

- they use a completely different language to any other film

how the colour schemes fit the expected repertoire of elements:

dark, cold (snow) grey 

how the kill scenes fit with 'conventional' ones:

- a person all alone hears a noise. a shadow moves across the screen. a vampire attacks the human's neck. 

Structure
Sheriff Eben is the protagonist.
Marlow is the antagonist

Technology
released in 2007, in the same decade youtube and myspace were invented and technology advanced rapidly making this film more poignant with its remote location and the fact all phones etc are destroyed so they cannot contact the outside world