Avoid cliches - fangs and dripping blood - by creating an eerie supernatural atmosphere in landscapes. Look at “The Empire of light” by Rene Magritte, “Mystery and Melancholy of a Street” by Giorgio de Chirico, and “Abbey Under Oak Trees” by Caspar David Friedrich.
Depict stormy seas and shipwreck using Dracula’s arrival at Whitby as stimulus - refer to Turner’s picture “Steamboat off a harbour”. Explore transmogrification from human being to bat; pupils study themselves and the bat, incorporating features from both, progress images in a stage-by-stage transformation.
Use digital cameras to photograph each pupil’s face; using ICT in stages remove the colour to produce a bleached-out vampire complexion - assemble in a grid, stylised and repeated in the style of Warhol’s “Marilyn”.
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