Social and Historical context
1) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s?
An Unearthly Child reflect the social and historical contexts of the 1960s by having a Doctor and his companions voyaging 100,000 into Earth's past to help some caveman to discover fire.This is because science fiction and an unearthly child was new in the 1960s.An unearthly child shows how people in 1960s thought that being a unearthly person wasn't normal.
2) How might audiences have felt towards science fiction in the 1960s?
The audience might felt in intrigued in the 1960s because it was first science fiction show released. This is because in the 1960s they had only two channels so people in 1960s would be intrigued of Doctor who. In the 1960s no one was interested with science fiction and Doctor who was only the popular science fiction TV shows to watch.
Language and close-textual analysis
1) Choose three key moments in the episode and write an NCIS analysis for those clips. You can use your notes from the screening in class. Make specific, detailed references using media terminology (e.g. media language - camera shots, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, mise-en-scene etc.)
An Unearthly Child scene analysis
Narrative:Alien invasion, Time travel, Mutation,
Character: Alien who look like human,
Iconography: Laboratories and experimental props, Time machine / advanced computers / gadgets
Setting: Laboratories, Different time periods
Good start but could you just revisit question 2 where you say that people in 1960s would NOT have been interested in Sci Fi. They would have been because of the keen interest in space due to the 'space race' between USA and Russia to see who could put man on the moon more quickly. There was a lot going on in the 1960s that meant people started to be more interested in the possibility of aliens and so on. Please change your answer to reflect this. If stuck, look at the notes where I have given you a timeline of the 1960s.
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