In order to explore the significance in the possible existence of extraterrestrial lives, my group and I collaborated to create a short documentary video on the extinction of an extraterrestrial civilization. In this collaborative film project, I contributed as both a director and a media producer, constructing the background and settings of the narrative and completing all post-production tasks. The documentary video describes an exploratory visit by a spaceship in the year 2120 to a planet named Vars, which greatly resembles Earth in terms of its climate, inhabitants, and ability to support life. The astronauts who traveled to Vars soon discovered the reasons for its rise and fall through careful investigations. Despite its sophisticated
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1984 is a great novel because not only does it depict a dystopian future but also renders that future in a believable way . Although society has clearly changed for the worse, author George Orwell shows how these conditions arose from life in the present. The propaganda machine behind all nations which constructs rather than disseminates truth is not so far from what existed in the Soviet Union or even, arguably, amongst all governments during times of war. There is also an obsession with television and surveillance of citizens. Citizens are literally watched by the government from televisions and are forced to engage in activities that the authority considers ideal. I wanted people in the futuristic world to be able to see the shadow of their own lives in terms of how Vars was depicted, just like people of the 1950s saw the Soviet threat and the conformism enforced in their own lives by post-World War II society in 1984. Unless there is an element of reality to a science fiction scenario, people are unlikely to be able to see it as a cautionary tale. This is also yet another reason why I decided to make the society a dystopia rather than a utopia. It is difficult to learn from a perfect society because it is so different from our own. An imperfect society which resembles ours, other than the fact that it is facing destruction, is more relatable to the societies in the current world. Similar to the civilization in 1984, the authority on Vars imposes camera surveillance to monitor physical behaviors of its populaces. In addition to the camera surveillance, I added a twist to the surveillance system by letting the authority to monitor the mental states of its populaces simultaneously. This contributes to the illusion of having in a perfectly stable society on Vars, which actually becomes a potential threat to the civilization later
1984 is a great novel because not only does it depict a dystopian future but also renders that future in a believable way . Although society has clearly changed for the worse, author George Orwell shows how these conditions arose from life in the present. The propaganda machine behind all nations which constructs rather than disseminates truth is not so far from what existed in the Soviet Union or even, arguably, amongst all governments during times of war. There is also an obsession with television and surveillance of citizens. Citizens are literally watched by the government from televisions and are forced to engage in activities that the authority considers ideal. I wanted people in the futuristic world to be able to see the shadow of their own lives in terms of how Vars was depicted, just like people of the 1950s saw the Soviet threat and the conformism enforced in their own lives by post-World War II society in 1984. Unless there is an element of reality to a science fiction scenario, people are unlikely to be able to see it as a cautionary tale. This is also yet another reason why I decided to make the society a dystopia rather than a utopia. It is difficult to learn from a perfect society because it is so different from our own. An imperfect society which resembles ours, other than the fact that it is facing destruction, is more relatable to the societies in the current world. Similar to the civilization in 1984, the authority on Vars imposes camera surveillance to monitor physical behaviors of its populaces. In addition to the camera surveillance, I added a twist to the surveillance system by letting the authority to monitor the mental states of its populaces simultaneously. This contributes to the illusion of having in a perfectly stable society on Vars, which actually becomes a potential threat to the civilization later