2. The types of science fiction:
Main themes
• Dystopian futures: Takes place in the future and suggests the world being outrun by
disease,violence and oppression. e.g. blade runner
• Time travel film: As the name suggests, a film about time travel either into the future or past and
either by a deceive or space travel. Can suggest parallel universes, alternate histories or alternate
realities e.g. back to the future.
• Alien film: Explores existence of aliens, alien invasions and alien abductions. Usually has a
contrast of human vs alien. e.g. predator
• Monster/Mutant film: Contains a monster or mutant that derives from a scientific explanation or
origin. These films can contain a scientific experiment or accident which produce a monster or
mutant. e.g. godzilla
• Apocalyptic film: The plot revolves around a impending disaster usually being a alien invasion, a
nuclear war or natural disaster. Usually technology development plays a large role. e.g.
independence day.
3. Character types
• Aliens/Monsters- causing outrage/concern to humans, sometimes the outcome of the mad
scientists experiment.
• Robots- can have a mixture of roles- helpful and heroic or evil or a slave to the ‘bad guy’.
• Villain- sometimes the one controlling the supernatural creatures, purposely causing
concern.
• Mad scientists- usually have crazy experiments which have accidental results e.g creating a
supernatural creature
• Person with superpowers- this person usually doesn't know about these powers straight
away or the powers are uncontrollable
• Victim- someone who needs to be saved by a hero, stereotypically a girl or princess.
• Hero- saves the victim, usually the person with superpowers stereotypically a boy.
4. Settings
• Outer space
• Another planet
• Earth
• In a ship- spaceship/boat/plane
• Mega cities
• Another world
5. My plot
• Sub genre: Time travel into a dystopian future
• Characters: Person with superpowers (kate), robots (evil), mad scientist, hero/helper (alfie)
and victim (zoe).
• Setting: City>megacity
• Storyline: As Kate discovers her power of invisibility she thinks it would be fun to sneak into
doctor harper’s lab. She sees a large machine and enters in, of course the doctor harper
doesn't see her. If only Kate knew that when she come out of the machine she will no
longer be in 2010 she will be 4000. A time where the world has turned into a mega city,
humans slaves to the empire of robots.Kate doesn't know how to work the machine for
travelling back so she is stuck. Alfie, a boy in the mega city helps her, together they are
trying to come up with a plan to destroy the empire of robots. Kate is particularly determined
as she doesn't want the future to be this way. Alfie finds out his sister Zoë has been
captured by the ‘main robot’ and he pleads for Kate's help, especially as he knows about
her invisibility. After saving Zoë and fixing the time machine Kate realises she is in love with
Alfie and doesn't want to go back without him.
