Sci-fi films and programmes

In sci-fi we expect fictional science and abnormal situations and characters as they tend to be very imaginatively and creatively made, a good example of this would be in Star Wars- a completely made up film which has hardly if any similarity to real life, one of the characters is Chewbacca, a big bear like creature but with the intelligence to communicate effectively with its human colleagues.

In many Sci-fi films because of the lack of realism viewers tend to use the characters in the film as ‘narrators’ in the sense that they use them to tell them what’s happening in the film and why it’s happening. This brings a closer connection between the viewer and the characters in the film as they using them to gain a better understanding of the film allowing them to enjoy the film without having to go through the whole film not having a clue what is going on.

In every sci-fi film the viewers are still able to connect to the characters, both human and fictional characters as no matter no matter how far fetched a film is compared to real life the viewers and on screen characters still feel the same emotions and feelings, happiness, sadness, anger etc.

Some sci-fi films reflect what is happening in our lives so viewers are able to predict what will happen further on in to the film and the story line/plot. The film will usually relate to the goings on of real life for example, a big part of the world today is war so you tend to see many films being released that involve war but are fictional.