Sunday, September 7, 2008

科幻影片技術研究 Science Fiction Film Studies

Science Fiction is a very technical genre in the movie media. It contains clips of high quality animation that is taken, edited and clipped to create these dramatic movements. These movies cross-mix with other genres in order to make the film more interesting, and so, it attracts more people to watch.


Some cross-mix genres are to make a movie more appealing:

  1. Superhero Fiction
  2. Horror Fiction
  3. Fantasy Fiction or ‘Science Fantasy’

Some subgenres that link with Science Fiction:

  1. Soft Science Fiction- focus on human characters and relationships
  2. Characteristics- looking more into technology, outer space and future
  3. Eras- how science work different between each period of years
  4. Creation- using technology in creating unseen creatures

Some themes that relates to Science Fiction:


- War/Disaster, massive explosions where it can be huge in size and much more exaggerated than real-life.


- Alien Invasion, the inclusion of a technology-made alien, can be either a protagonist or antagonist.

- Far Future, going through time, traveling to different worlds and adventuring different lives.

-Robotic Films, showing communication between human and artificial lives. Usually ends up in a break-down between them.


Some examples of Science Fiction Movies:

  1. Godzilla
  2. X-Men
  3. The Matrix
  4. Spiderman
  5. Jurassic Park
  6. Star Wars Trilogy


Personally, I enjoy watching superhero and war movies in the science fiction category. Movies such as the Star Wars, Spiderman, etc- the computer generated monsters (for example, General Grievous) are made very realistic-like which can easily attract vast amounts of viewers to just enjoy these great graphical images.




Bibliography:

www.wikipedia.org
www.filmsite.org

1 comment:

Mr Parker said...

Good start. Consider what defines science fiction films apart from content. Do they have recurring themes or concerns?