NCIS Science Fiction Clips Analysis
Doctor Who: Amy Pond meets Amelia Pond
Narrative: The narrative presents a third person perspective of a young girl exploring an abandoned or closed-hours museum. The girl herself is presented as quite clumsy and perhaps a bit odd after apologising to an inanimate object. A deep dramatic and spooky backing track soon floods in as she ventures onward. This might give the audience a feel of oncoming danger. This concludes the equilibrium as she finds a huge cubed-shaped object and a note addressed to her. The disequilibrium is introduced when she touches the cube and it begins glowing, giving a sense something bad is about to happen. A person who looks quite similar to her if she were older emerges from the cube and begins speaking about something she does not (yet) understand. The new equilibrium is that one of the artefacts comes to life and another stranger appears. They all then flee from the oncoming attacker.
Character: The girl appeals to the audience because she is small, a little naive and quite innocent in the sense she does not understand what is happening around her. This is quite a reinforcement of the stereotype of children being innocent, ignorant and curious. The Doctor appeals as he is smart, witty and always comes to save the day, often conforming to the hero of Propp's character theory. This reinforces the stereotype that men are mainly the hero.
Iconography: The scene and colour scheme gives a dark and eerie vibe from the meagre lighting that shows through, the harsh blue lighting that is present seeming to come from the moon through an open window. The colour blue is a standard colour used in science fiction and is therefore expected. It helps to communicate something inhuman or synthetic.
Setting: The inanimate objects in predatory stances (e.g. the stuffed polar bear) help hint the danger as do the ropes that cut off the girl from the exhibition, specifically implying that she doesn't cross of touch anything. The clutter of the first scene leads out into a more neat and tidy area, also as if the setting is leading her in that direction for a reason.
Humans: Season 1 Trailer
Narrative: The narrative is set in the near-future in which advanced synthetic humans/robots have been created to assist humans in their daily life. The story follows the aspects of their life like laws, rights and co-operations with humans themselves. With some humans being uneasy about this new era of robots it gives the fear of technology surpassing or having malicious intent towards humanity by not following their original programming or becoming sentient. With the equilibrium being a world without 'synthetics' the disequilibrium is the creation of them therefore presenting the new equilibrium to be humans living with this new race.
Characters: The first robot (Mia) introduced gives off a friendly and helpful vibe The wife of the family who takes her in seems wary above inviting her into the house which may influence the consumers opinion into sensing this foreign technology could be spying on them or have another purpose. The wife herself seems anxious overall, not even attempting to get used to the robot before she begins doubting it. Leo Elster played by Colin Morgan is also seen in this clip speaking to a blonde synthetic (Niska) about saving her. This gives off the impression he is a hero of some sort and Niska is the heroine.
Iconography: The synthetics can be distinguished by their unnatural bright jade green eyes, bright neon colours are also a convention of science fiction. The green of their eyes could ironically be have been done to imply nature or safety and comfort humans but in such and unnatural shade it gives off a cartoonishly radioactive feel or perhaps make one think about energy. In the bible, green signifies immortality which is something the robots have and the humans don't.
Setting: This is also set in London and made for a British audience which can help the audience immerse themselves within what life would be like if artificial intelligence was this advanced. This gratifies the audience looking for personal identity. London itself is quite grey and absent of colour, which fits into the science fiction colour scheme.
Narrative: The narrative presents a third person perspective of a young girl exploring an abandoned or closed-hours museum. The girl herself is presented as quite clumsy and perhaps a bit odd after apologising to an inanimate object. A deep dramatic and spooky backing track soon floods in as she ventures onward. This might give the audience a feel of oncoming danger. This concludes the equilibrium as she finds a huge cubed-shaped object and a note addressed to her. The disequilibrium is introduced when she touches the cube and it begins glowing, giving a sense something bad is about to happen. A person who looks quite similar to her if she were older emerges from the cube and begins speaking about something she does not (yet) understand. The new equilibrium is that one of the artefacts comes to life and another stranger appears. They all then flee from the oncoming attacker.
Character: The girl appeals to the audience because she is small, a little naive and quite innocent in the sense she does not understand what is happening around her. This is quite a reinforcement of the stereotype of children being innocent, ignorant and curious. The Doctor appeals as he is smart, witty and always comes to save the day, often conforming to the hero of Propp's character theory. This reinforces the stereotype that men are mainly the hero.
Iconography: The scene and colour scheme gives a dark and eerie vibe from the meagre lighting that shows through, the harsh blue lighting that is present seeming to come from the moon through an open window. The colour blue is a standard colour used in science fiction and is therefore expected. It helps to communicate something inhuman or synthetic.
Setting: The inanimate objects in predatory stances (e.g. the stuffed polar bear) help hint the danger as do the ropes that cut off the girl from the exhibition, specifically implying that she doesn't cross of touch anything. The clutter of the first scene leads out into a more neat and tidy area, also as if the setting is leading her in that direction for a reason.
Humans: Season 1 Trailer
Narrative: The narrative is set in the near-future in which advanced synthetic humans/robots have been created to assist humans in their daily life. The story follows the aspects of their life like laws, rights and co-operations with humans themselves. With some humans being uneasy about this new era of robots it gives the fear of technology surpassing or having malicious intent towards humanity by not following their original programming or becoming sentient. With the equilibrium being a world without 'synthetics' the disequilibrium is the creation of them therefore presenting the new equilibrium to be humans living with this new race.
Characters: The first robot (Mia) introduced gives off a friendly and helpful vibe The wife of the family who takes her in seems wary above inviting her into the house which may influence the consumers opinion into sensing this foreign technology could be spying on them or have another purpose. The wife herself seems anxious overall, not even attempting to get used to the robot before she begins doubting it. Leo Elster played by Colin Morgan is also seen in this clip speaking to a blonde synthetic (Niska) about saving her. This gives off the impression he is a hero of some sort and Niska is the heroine.
Iconography: The synthetics can be distinguished by their unnatural bright jade green eyes, bright neon colours are also a convention of science fiction. The green of their eyes could ironically be have been done to imply nature or safety and comfort humans but in such and unnatural shade it gives off a cartoonishly radioactive feel or perhaps make one think about energy. In the bible, green signifies immortality which is something the robots have and the humans don't.
Setting: This is also set in London and made for a British audience which can help the audience immerse themselves within what life would be like if artificial intelligence was this advanced. This gratifies the audience looking for personal identity. London itself is quite grey and absent of colour, which fits into the science fiction colour scheme.
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