hat. Behind Dopey, a little girl about five years old wearing a Tinker Bell costume is happily running after Dopey. While the two children on the left are wearing bright red, Dopey and the little girl on the right are dressed in green. In celebration of Halloween, each individual carries an orange jack-o-lantern shaped basket for candy as they all skip merrily toward the same direction. In contrast with the night sky, Cinderella’s white castle in the background stands centered in the photograph. The lights pouring out from inside the castle brighten up the surrounding environment, as well as the lights coming from the two brown buildings on either side of the castle. The ground looks fairly wet and the area is not crowded with people, but several individuals are scattered sparingly in the far background with orange baskets as well. Disney’s fun and enjoyable advertisement uses the scary holiday of Halloween as a magical experience for children to enjoy, whereas Universal’s approach advertises an extremely frightening event. In the advertisement of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, the different scenes add more intensity to the story as it progresses. Beginning with the sound and visual of water trickling into a puddle, the scene then changes to a blurry dark female figure walking toward the camera. The eerie audio of the dripping water and rushing winds continue in the background as the female approaches a helpless couple strapped in chairs centered in a dark and murky warehouse. Decorated with burning candles, baby dolls, and animals floating inside glass jars, the warehouse contains jail-like cages with moving figures inside. As the camera zooms in to the details of the female’s white face, the black diamonds around her yellow eyes and the wide red smile resemble the Joker. The man and woman in the chairs are unaware of their surroundings at first, but they are quickly terrified once they see the female joker. As the Joker begins to play a slower and chilling version of Goes the Weasel,” the innocent couple struggles for freedom “Pop
hat. Behind Dopey, a little girl about five years old wearing a Tinker Bell costume is happily running after Dopey. While the two children on the left are wearing bright red, Dopey and the little girl on the right are dressed in green. In celebration of Halloween, each individual carries an orange jack-o-lantern shaped basket for candy as they all skip merrily toward the same direction. In contrast with the night sky, Cinderella’s white castle in the background stands centered in the photograph. The lights pouring out from inside the castle brighten up the surrounding environment, as well as the lights coming from the two brown buildings on either side of the castle. The ground looks fairly wet and the area is not crowded with people, but several individuals are scattered sparingly in the far background with orange baskets as well. Disney’s fun and enjoyable advertisement uses the scary holiday of Halloween as a magical experience for children to enjoy, whereas Universal’s approach advertises an extremely frightening event. In the advertisement of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, the different scenes add more intensity to the story as it progresses. Beginning with the sound and visual of water trickling into a puddle, the scene then changes to a blurry dark female figure walking toward the camera. The eerie audio of the dripping water and rushing winds continue in the background as the female approaches a helpless couple strapped in chairs centered in a dark and murky warehouse. Decorated with burning candles, baby dolls, and animals floating inside glass jars, the warehouse contains jail-like cages with moving figures inside. As the camera zooms in to the details of the female’s white face, the black diamonds around her yellow eyes and the wide red smile resemble the Joker. The man and woman in the chairs are unaware of their surroundings at first, but they are quickly terrified once they see the female joker. As the Joker begins to play a slower and chilling version of “Pop Goes the Weasel,” the innocent couple struggles for freedom
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