My Genre Poster

For this poster, we were asked to draw a poster that embodies the sci-fi genre. To achieve this, despite our less-than-perfect drawing skills, we included some of the basic things people will expect from a run of the mill sci-fi film. This includes aliens, lasers, spaceships, an alien planet and a setting in space. While there are a large portion of sci-fi films that do not include these generalised characters, settings, themes, etc, we drew what we believed to be what most people would quickly identify as common sci-fi tropes, which boiled down to strange aliens and laser fights. Science is a major part of the “science fiction” genre, however it isn’t easy to find a common trope that is identifiable for the majority of people that would show this – even if sci-fi isn’t exclusively lasers and spaceships, this is how a lot of people would identify the genre.