In My media research I carried out an investigation as to how women have been represented in science fiction movies through the past few decades. From what I had looked at it showed me that the role of women among these movies has significantly changed over the years, in light of this I created three print based media projects in the sci-fi genre.

What I discovered from my research into the sci-fi genre was that women played a very passive role and highly sexualized. This is why my first Movie poster ‘Launch Backward’ had a female in figure hugging tights, which would convey with the connotations of sci-fi women being strangely sexualized. Other factors that I implemented in my poster was the inclusion of a dark background with vibrant colours such as purple and blue, these tend to be associated among sci-fi.

I changed the contrast from the bottom to the top of the main image to give the effect that the woman is from that aura. I also included a strange planet in the background of my poster this gives the impression that the movie would be based upon this, I feel that this would entice the audience to use their imagination as to what such a planet would be like.

As simplicity was key to my poster I only included the title, actors and a gripping tagline to draw movie enthusiasts in. I believe I have achieved this mainly on the striking font that is displayed in this poster that has been reversed to allow the audience to decipher it.

My second media production that I created was a DVD cover which was much more in-depth. What I included was a general plot outline that there was a disaster that changed everything creating a new equilibrium. I titled this DVD cover ‘Cosmatic’ I had taken a picture of a woman from behind to achieve the male dominance effect as this gives the woman a sense of insecurity that niche audiences would thrive off of.

The Cover was given a starry background to give a ‘space feel’ informing the audience of the genre straight away. I placed a ‘18’ bbfc logo as the movie would include sexually suggestive behaviour and heavy violent scenes. This movie would be primarily aimed at students from 18 to mid 20’s.

Again, I used striking blues and reds to conform to that futuristic feel and romantic touch. Having reviews and ‘one-liners’ on the back of the cover would increase public interest as if it has good reviews it would be a movie worth seeing.

The font I used on this Cover has an electronic look to it, this again includes the connotations of futuristic and technology. Also ‘what you thought was impossible’ allows the audience to think what could that be? This would drive the narrative of the movie.

The third Piece I worked on was another movie poster, this was titled ‘Contrast’ which was another Movie poster the way it is led out is a juxtaposition of the title and the array of colours that I used. To make the title stand out and catch the attention of the audience I put it against a red background.

I ensured that the picture that I took looked at the audience, as this would help develop a ‘relationship’ with the character and determine the type of movie.
This poster has the most array of colours to really let go on the whole sci-fi aspect and create something far fetched.

In a brief conclusion, I think that my in-depth research into the sci-fi genre has as a direct result gave me three strong print based pieces of work thus including important connotations associated with this particular genre.