Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
A full list
Action or Adventure Sci-Fi
Alien Invasion
Aliens, Extra-Terrestrial Encounters
Anime
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Atomic Age
Classic Sci-Fi
Creature Films
Disaster - See Greatest Disaster Film Scenes also
Dystopic or Dystopia
End of World
Exploration
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Films
50's Sci-Fi
"First Contact"
Futuristic (or Future Noir)
Galactic Empire
Lost Worlds
Mad Scientists
Militaristic
Monsters and Mutants
Mythic Fables or Mythology
Natural Horror
Near Future
Other Dimensions
Outer Space
Parallel (or Alternate) Universe
Post-Apocalyptic (or Apocalyptic)
Pre-historic
Psychological Sci-Fi
Pulp
Punk Sci-Fi (i.e., Steam Punk, Nano Punk, Atom
Punk, Cyber Punk, etc.)
Religious or Theological
Robots, Cyborgs and Androids
Sci-Fi Comedies
Sci-Fi Horror
Sci-Fi Thrillers
Space Opera
Space or Sci-Fi Westerns
Speculative
Star Trek
Super-Hero Films (e.g., Supermen and Others)
Supernatural
Tech-Noir
Time or Space Travel
Virtual Reality
Film
Techniques:
Close Ups of
futuristic
technologie
s/ scientific
elements.
Setting - Time:
The future, an
alternative timeline, or
an historical past that
contradicts historical
records.
Setting - Place:
Outer space,
other worlds,
or alternative
versions of
earth.
Science
Fiction
Convention
s
Symbolism:
Futuristic props, costume
and setting that represent
the scientific advancement
at the centre of the film.
Narrative
Elements:
Conflict
between
good and
evil.
Narrative
Elements:
The
development
and/or
application
of:
a) new
technology
(e.g.
nanotechnolo
gy, robots,
spaceships)
b) new
scientific
principles
(e.g. timetravel)
c)new
political
systems (e.g.
dystopian/uto
pian
societies)
Demographics and
Psychographics
Demographics
Definition: Demographic information
is used in media marketing to classify
an audience into age, gender, race
and other categories.
Demographics are broken into bands
depending on peoples jobs or status.
This is shown in this table.
Demographic Table
Psychographics
Psychographic segmentation divides
the market into groups based on
social class, lifestyle and personality
characteristics. It is based on the
assumption that the types of
products and brands an individual
purchases will reflect that persons
characteristics and patterns of living.
Psychographics
Examples
Our understanding of the word "villain"
depends on the difference between that
word and the opposing word "hero".
Within the media field, binary oppositions
are used very frequently in films,
especially in the horror genre. Many horror
films include sets of binary oppositions in
their plots. Particularly good and evil, sane
and insane, rational and irrational and
human and supernatural.
History of binary
opposites
Binary opposites used to be
very simple and easy to spot
in films, such as good VS bad
in traditional fighting films.
However in recent years they
have become more complex
and unusual. For example, the
recent twilight films have had
a complicated plot in slowly
revealing vampires VS
werewolves, and this binary
opposite is difficult to spot in
the first film.
Narrative metaphors:
Avatar has aliens representing 3rd
world people and humans=s
representing 1st world people,
destroying the environment and
destroying cultures
District 9 has aliens representing
immigrants and the black and
white people of south Africa are
united in their hatred for the
aliens it's a big metaphor for
apartheid and how wrong it is
since the aliens are not
dangerous
Revision Aids
What is a pitch and how to write one
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-4810-W-TRB-U0
1-A-STAR-EXEMPLAR-2011.PDF
Different subgenres of Science Fiction films (post
apocalyptic, natural disaster, artificial intelligence, alien
invasion, space travel, time travel, scientific
experiments, mutants etc)
http://www.filmsite.org/subgenres2.html
The conventions of Science Fiction films in general (eg
mise-en-scene, sound, editing, camera, narratives,
characters etc)
https://prezi.com/o-lfnomvssem/science-fiction-genre-conven
tions/
Revision Aids
How sci fi films try and keep existing audiences and
engage new ones (including examples) MARKETING https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_promotion
Facts or statistics about audience figures for different sci
fi films (most popular, least popular films and why
audiences liked them / didnt like them) - http://
www.imdb.com/genre/sci_fi
Who watches / doesnt watch the different types of
Science Fiction films
Reasons why people watch / dont watch sci fi films
https://
www.quora.com/Why-do-people-like-science-fiction
http://mrbainesmediayr11.blogspot.co.uk/