Thursday 25 June 2015

Textual Analysis: Science Fiction

Film 1: The Leviathan
Sub Genre: The beginning shows space ships and humans travelling around space, then an extra terrestrial creature comes up and it tries to eat the humans , this suggests that it is Man vs Alien film and comes under action and gory.

Key Conventions: There is a typical storyline of humans travelling through a dystopia land  where they find extra terrestrial creatures and they get eaten by these creatures.

Target Audience: This is aimed at 16+ viewers that are mostly male because it contains action and violent.

Film 2:Interstellar
Sub Genre:It has space ships so it shows that is a typical Space time travel movie.

Key conventions: it conceeds of an astronaut traveling acros space and communicating with another dimension .

Target Audience: this is a family film as it has no violence.

Film 3 : Jurassic World

Sub Genre: it has dinosaurs which are unusual creaturesit is a man vs monster film.

Key conventions: it has alot of dinosaurs which are typical extra terrestrial creature.

Target Audience: It is a family film since there is a family in the movie

1 comment:

  1. Hi Gus
    WWW- This is a good start to the course. You have thought about what appeals to key target audience groups and you have mentioned some key conventions.
    EBI-
    Can you please post the rest of the Textual Analysis? Consider saying 'key conventions' when you spot typical, expected aspects that link to Sci Fi genre.
    Thanks
    Miss Fowler

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