ScI-fi genre and sociohistorical context

Allegory 
A Media Product that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Zeitgeist 
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. 'The spirit of the time'

 Godzilla 
Godzilla represents the Americans bombing Japan 
The dinosaur was used as the events were too raw only 5 years ago

 Invasion of the Saucer-men
Russian spies were infiltrating American society 
Aliens are the Russians

 Independence day 
global terrorism associated with the middle east
Whitehouse represents whole of America
Aliens attack first


Humans Sci-Fi conventions...
- Blue eyes
- Robots (robotic speech, power on)
- Artificial intelligence
- Synth factory, clean blue mise en scene
- Stiff performance of a robot

Why its unconventional....
- very realistic real world setting



Allegorical aspects of humans:
- Sexualisation
- Sexual exploitation
- Modern slavery
- Capitalism and the Nuclear family
- Prostitution and the rights of sex workers
- Racism


Modern Slavery 
- Female Synths used around the house, in the kitchen
- male synths picking oranges

 Sexualisation in humans
 - Anita can be used as a "sex bot" with no consent needed
- Anita is stereotypically attractive 

 Prostitution
- Synths had feelings that could be turned off
Humans is bringing up adult issues:
Sex Robots are currently in the process of being made legal in the UK
- They may move, talk, shout

 Ethical considerations:
- A robot is a depiction/representation of a person 
- Anita is a representation of a women 
- Starts to make boundaries go down of what is right and what is wrong
- The show is also about pornography 
- Gives the idea of thats what sex is like (cultivating the idea), cultivates the ideology that its ok to be like a women 
Steve Neals - Theories around Genre 

 Why does genre exist?
- To set a theme 
- So audience an see what they're specifically watching 
Laura meets Anita...
- Zooming slow on both Anita and Laura's face
- reverse shot
- Binary opposition - one is a robot, one is human 
- Laura is older and Anita is younger
- Anita is east asian and Laura is white
- could be related to Chinese people 
- Mise en scene, holding spray and cloth assuming shes been cleaning 














Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Target audience for Assassins Creed ||| Liberation

Image
Pen portrait for the target audience for Assassins Creed III: Liberation : Age: 17 (14-20) Gender: Male Class: Working Class Lifestyle: students Cultural capital: no cultural capital Merchandise: There are certain items of merchandise that would appeal to a niche audience  Henry Jenkins - Fandom  Fandom refers to . particularly organised and motivated audience of A certain media producer franchise unlike the generic audience or the classic spectator, fans are active participants in the construction and circulation of textual meanings What happens when you play too many video games: Attitudes towards things and other people change (may be more violent) Become stupid You become antisocial Audience theory - hypodermic needle theory  - Flawed model as people may not actually go out and kill people after playing video games  - Only industry we need to apply it to is the video game industry  How might this game present a threat to the...
Read more

Humans and Les Revenants - marketing

Explore how Humans and Les Revenants uses marketing and promotional campaigns to maintain both local and global audiences. Humans marketing campaign - unconventional Les Revenants marketing campaign - Traditional forms Humans and Les revenants use a range of marketing and promotional campaigns to cover local and global audiences.  (D)  Marketing is an absolutely vital aspect of ensuring that media products reach their intended audiences. In order to ensure that this happens, producers are increasingly relying on digital technologies in order to efficiently promote media products both on a local and global level. (A)  In this essay i shall argue that it is possible to ensure that both local and global success through the use of digitally convergent advertising and promotional techniques. (C)   Humans is a sci-fi TV show first broadcast in the UK in 2015 on Channel 4. It is an adaptation of the Swedish show Real Humans, although a number of changes we...
Read more

Revision session 1 - component 1- Kiss of the Vampire

Component 1 Section A - unseen texts Section B -  (industry and audience) Component 2 - Tv - Online media - Magazines Component 1 section A Explore the ways in which these adverts use representations to position audiences. You should make reference to: How groups are represented Intertextually Genre conventions Viewpoints and ideologies Us trailer  representation of black people  Stereotypes of black people - listening to hip hop/rap music  Genre conventions of horror - soundtrack, instruments played Token white characters - subverts the norm One is old and one is modern One is print one is video There are similarities in how representations position audiences through horror paradigms, however Us focuses primarily on a black family, which is highly subversive/atypical. Plan Stereotypes Binary opposition  mise en scene codes and conventions ( hermeneutic code, symbolic code, referential code of child jaws t-shirt)...
Read more