H G Wells' novel The War of the Worlds 

it was broadcast on radio, and it made the listeners think there was an actual alien invasion, creating panic and mass hysteria across America.

The hypodermic needle model

This theory states that people listen/watch/read media texts and believe every part of every media message they are told. they consume it like a drug strait to the brain. It is the effect of brainwashing someone. If the Hypodermic Needle model is to be believed, then the audience is passive.

Uses and gratifications

 Jay Bulmer and Elihu Katz developed an audience theory that allows us to see what people do with their media rather then what the media does to them.

• Entertainment - diversion or escape from day-to-day routines.
• relationships - where they use to test to form relationships with others, e.g..e. online communities, discussion with friends.
• information - learning about the world, learning new things.
• Identify - where the text helps you to identify with something and to reinforce your own values.

Remember text can be any type of media, such as a book, image, film, audio or a video.

Time Travel

Starter

I would live around the year 2060. i say this as by this point, earth would either be massive improved or baron wastelands. Hopefully by this point commercial space travel is possible and i would go live either in space or on another planet which is more new and less "day to day" then earth. I would try to sway others off the cliche path of taking control and just causing a massive mess of everything.

http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=131

There is a strong presence of "time travel" in the film interstellar. it includes aspects such as relative time, and how one planets time = 7 years on earth. this is done and explained through relative gravity of earth being on one side of a wormhole, while "Miller's planet" was  

Case study: space travel film

The Martian

year of release - 2016
director - Ridley scott

actors 

Matt Damon

Jessica Chastain

Kristen Wiig

Jeff Daniels

Michael Pena

Sean Bean

Kate Mara

narrative

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. However, Watney survives and finds himself stranded and alone on a hostile planet. with minimal supplies, he has to use his soil and spirit to survive and send that crucial signal back to earth that he is alive. NASA and a team of international scientists strive to bring him home.

Iconography

There is a lot of iconography in this, such as the use of the company NASA. People instantly recognise them as the leading space agency so there icons to the Sci-Fi world. There is also the very typical use of the "stack" rocket. tis is where the staging modules of the rocket are one above the other and is a very typical and recognisable idea of space travel.

Character types

not many classic character types, Watney (Damon) being the main protagonist, but otherwise there are not many character types which go in this movie.

Setting / Time period

Mars - November 2035

Costume

Space suits, business wear in NASA. very conventional space-suits.