Evaluation

I found this project a very interesting one, I thought the brief was very easy to approach and I feel I have done that with confidence. I researched into the history of Sci-Fi TV dramas and looked into scripts. My man outcome I wanted to achieve from this was a strong piece of script writing to be presented as a monologue within a Sci-Fi drama. My video has been edited and filmed to feel like a pre-titles sequence for a new drama. I looked a shooting scripts from Doctor Who as a starting point, and watched several sci-fi dramas to find inspiration. I filmed in a wooded area to give the impression of trying to escape somewhere, and place where there are no people around. I filmed in the style of a video diary and during the editing process added a filter to the video to give it a more mysterious edge. I also added ambient music to the film to add more atmosphere, using an eary soundtrack. Overall I am very happy with my final outcome, I would of liked my video to have included some flashback clips, but I enjoyed the process of creating the film very enjoyable.

Final Film

This is the final outcome of my film.

Ideas, Development and Post-Production

This is a video of some of my ideas, development and screen shots of post production on how I edited my film.

Final Script

Script Ideas and Planning

I looked at existing Doctor Who scripted from the episode titled 'The End of the World', I looked at this script as I felt the themes would be relevant to this project. I took the script extract from the book titled 'Doctor Who The Shooting Scripts'. In this extract Rose talks about the world ending and The Doctor also reminisces on his home planet that was destroyed. As you can see I noted many ideas on these pages to help write my script for my film.

Storyboards

Here are my initial storyboards.



Here are my initial storyboards.

Sci Fi Dramas

I've decided that my film is going to be the opening to a new science fiction drama to be aired on TV. The series would be called 'The Last Message from Earth'.

It is important to understand how different countries interpret and produce science fiction within television. British television has produced many science fiction programs over the years, the first being in 1938, as part of BBC's pre-war programming. The show 'R.U.R. was broadcast live from Alexandra Palace, and was the only scince fiction program broadcast before the war.
Britian's most successful science fiction drama is Doctor Who, which was first aired in 1963 on the BBC. The show was off air from 1989, except in 1996 a Doctor Who movies was produced by British and American networks. Doctor Who then fully revived in 2005 and airs currently to this day. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction drama in the world.


America is most likely responsible for producing the most science fiction television programs. Their most famous being Star Trek. Star Trek first aired in 1966 and has since had many spin off series and movies. In recent years America has gone on to produced many other popular series including The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Lost, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica.