Genre Research

 Genre- Science Fiction

Target audience- Young Adults ages 18-35, science and technology enthusiasts all ages

Science fiction is often expresses as futuristic themes, technology, and speculative science, addressing topics like AI, time travel, space exploration, and alien life.

Films that us science fiction usually use GGI and VFX to create believable futuristic world, with often using advanced sound design, unique costume work, and imaginative set pieces.

Marketing for films with science fiction often try to highlight the impressive visual effects, and groundbreaking technology. Trailers focus on the actions scenes,  out off world landscapes to target fans of high tech storytelling and imaginative narratives. 

Blade Runner is a film based in 2049 and is a great example of science fiction because the theme of the film is around AI, memory, and human identity. The movie builds on a dystopian, cyberpunk world where humans coexist with artificial beings called replicants. It uses deep, shadowed lighting, neon colors, and rainy urban settings to create a dark, futuristic aesthetic. The film’s visuals and production design, along with its thought-provoking storyline, embody sci-fi’s focus on advanced technology and ethical questions.

Interstellar is another great of science fiction due to the epic scale and focus on time travel and exploring themes like dilation and the survival of humanity. The film’s depiction of black holes and wormholes is grounded in real scientific theories, and its use of practical effects combined with CGI makes space scenes feel both realistic and awe-inspiring. The movie’s marketing focused on its mind-bending story and visual spectacle, which drew in sci-fi fans and general audiences alike.

Representation

 Eleven, a central figure of the tv show Stranger Things, embodies both empowerment and vulnerability, She is portrayed as a girl with super powers, but also a character who struggles with emotional expression and understanding human relationships due to her being isolated. This taps into the concept of construction, as her character is carefully shaped through the shows shots choices and editing to emphasize her otherness in comparison to her peers. This decision is to focus on her psychic abilities, rather than her childhood trauma, also demonstrates selection, the show chooses to highlight aspects of her identity that contribute to the plots suspense and mystery, while downplaying the real world implications of abuse and isolation. 

Sometimes, Elevens abilities are almost exoticized, especially when she is using her power in visually dramatic ways. Her powers become a spectacle which can be seen as an overphasis on her strangeness or uniqueness. This shows exoticzing a common use in media where individual with extraordinary traits or from different cultures are showed for their differences in ways that may seem strange or exaggerated to the audience. 

Lucas Sinclair is one of the few black characters in Stranger Things. While he is one of the key characters of the group of friends, his portrayal sometimes goes into stereotypes with African American male characters in mainstream media. Lucas is often the skeptic, the pragmatic one, and occasionally portrayed as more aggressive friend of the group, all his roles that align with traditional media of black men as tough or confrontational. These role illustrate the concept of stereotype, which simplifies his character in ways that may not always allow for a more nuanced portrayal of his identity. 

Lucas is part of a historically underrepresented group in media, know as people with color as stated in the notes. While in Stanger Things shows some of his complexity and heroism, his story sometimes feel like its compared to other, predominantly white characters. 

In Stanger Things the representation of both Eleven and Lucas Sinclair highlights both the progress and limitations of contemporary media in reflecting diverse experiences. The show does really good on complex characters it also falls into common patterns of stereotyping and exoticizing. 

Sound Project

 During the sound lesson we learn how sound plays a bigger part on a project than what people think.

In our sound project we had to create a 1-2 minutes long story only using sound with no video was allowed. You also had to create 4 foley sounds using random object to create a sound. 

Me and my partner approach the project by first starting a brainstorm on what our story was going to be.

At first we had a story about a day in a life at a school; but it was too boring, so then we brainstormed on a story of you walking to a coffee shop in a city then when you are inside one of the machine is getting worked on then there is a big explosion and there are a lot of people screaming and crying for help. 

Our outline help us a lot because it helped us have an idea on how the sound where going to be place when editing so it would sound like one fluid motion. Our outline also showed the sounds that we had to create as a foley, so when we had to create the sound we knew which ones we had to create. 

During editing we had to make sure that everything was on point, so we would cut some sounds to make sure that they would start at the right time so when the next sound was playing it didn't sound bad. Also during editing we also had to make sure that when we would place sounds on top of each other one would not be louder than the other and it would sound like one full sound.

I fell like our project was very well done. To make our life's easier me and my partner slip the project in half to make it easy on us, but it would also be hard because the editing needed to be on point up we did really good on that. For me I feel like my editing has improve from the last project and I have gotten more use to using premier pro. Overall I think me and my partner did really good on this project.

Project-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LR47JmbeU