Genre conventions.
What does convention
mean?
Convention is a key ingredient in a specific genre of media
text. They are the things that we expect to see in particular types of films.
Sci-fi Conventions.
Narrative
-New world
- Different planets
- Space
- Aliens
-Time travel
- Possibilities
- Alien invasions
- Battles
- End of the
world
- War
- Rise of a
interegalitic space war
- Man vs
alien or robot
- Save
something
- Fighting
alien race
- Inventions
- Time travel
- Discovering
new world
- Aliens
- Robots
- wise older
character
- Protagonist
tends to be human (male)
- Audience =
male
- Antagonist
= alien
- Hero team
-
Theme
-
Robots
-
Computers
–
Space ships
–
Aliens
–
Humanity
–
Protagonist
–
Antagonist
–
Ideology
–
Good vs evil
–
End of the world
–
Victory over human ideas
–
Saving or creating a potential future
–
Safeguarding human race
–
Loyalty and teamwork
–
Negative impacts of technological invancements
–
Mise En
Scene
-
Computers
-
Futuristic costume
-
Aliens
-
Cars
-
Space ships
-
Future
-
Dystopian city’s
-
Space
-
High tech weapons
-
Amazing inventions
-
High tech cars
-
Future technology
-
Uniform
-
Futuristic make
up
-
Human characters maintain normal hair & makeup
-
Silver – black – green – neon – metallic
-
Guns
-
Robots
-
Different foods
Other
- Special effects- cgi
- Graphics/ fonts / metallic
- Sound- intense music
- Futuristic sfx
- Famous actors/ directors e.g. JJ Abram’s
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