Death Race

          
             This movie explores the idea of government corruption. In this movie, criminals are made to participate in lethal races for the enjoyment of the general population. This automatically brings to mind the stories of ancient Rome and the coliseum. In my opinion, if this ever occurs in the future, people will completely lose their morals. In this trailer, the woman says that the death races get more views than the superbowl. This is shameful to society, since these are human beings, who may even be innocent, and that they are deserving of respect and life.
             The director uses imagery to get this theme across. The trailer has this almost gray tint to it. The gray tint contributes to the feelings of melancholy that the audience feel while watching the movie. Also this, combined with the strong images of people dying in car crashes during the death races cause the audience to question their morals and whether they'd actually watch such a program!

Terra Nova

             This TV show focuses on the effects of what happens in a society where the government censors information. In my opinion, censoring is one of the worst things any government can do, because it takes away society's opportunity to fix the government's mistakes. In the show, the world is portrayed as this dim place where humanity has overpopulated and wasted all of Earth's resources. The government figures out a solution, by colonizing a new planet.
             The TV show creator chose a wonderful way to portray the theme n this trailer. This trailer goes from extremely gloomy to hopeful, when the humans get to the new land, to gloomy again, when the new society figures out that the government has been hiding things from them and that they'll have to create a new government. The trailer's way of purging the audience's feelings by giving them hope then ripping them away is genius. This gets the message of government corruption across in a brilliant way. Not only does it capture our attention, but it also keeps it with an extremely interesting storylin .

Wall E

             This film has the idea that humanity becomes so dependent on technology that they nearly disappear as a race. This seems counter intuitive at first, but upon further thought it's logical. It's happening already today! Kids are getting obese younger and spending more time watching tv or playing video games. In my opinion, the message is gotten across very clearly in later scenes were humans have degraded to obese vegetables with no attention spans.
             The director gets this across by using strong imagery in this trailer. The scenes are compromised of pretty much nothing. This vast field that Wall E is shown on is completely empty besides him. This impacts the human mind in a strong way, since we as humans don't want to see our race come to an end. This strong imagery combined with the clearly advanced robot, creates an everlasting impact on our minds.

Jason X

              In this movie, the author deals with the idea of biotech and genetics. Jason is an unstoppable who should've died several times in the movie were it not for the help of technology. I believe that although this movie is completely childish and unrealistic, the possibility of technology that keeps you alive forever falling into the wrong hands is very high. Humanity seems to have a problem keeping anything out of the wrong hands, as shown by situation like the world's atomic bomb ownerships and websites like wiki leaks.
             The director gets this theme across using a lame horror movie as his vehicle. In an attempt to scare the public into not developing technologies that can grant life or protecting them better, the director has made a movie that imposes fear into the audience. The director is, in a way, attempting to scare the public into making sure the circumstances of this film don't occur. The imagery and word choice in this trailer were extremely unhelpful towards getting this theme across. Had the author taken it more seriously or not made something so lame, he would actually have an interesting topic at hand.

Resident Evil

          This movie explores the idea of what would happen if humanity were to change into these crazed creatures. This falls under the biotech category, because these once normal humans are now freaks, because of a freak technological experiment. I believe that the government is too stubborn and greedy to refuse any experiment that promises to yield something extremely beneficiary to society. I believe that they wouldn't even question the health risks or consequence that could come from their decision to do so. I believe this based on several recent events, such as the war in Iraq, where the government so stubbornly stepped into a country that clearly didn't want us there.
           The director's message of technology creating a zombie apocalypse is delivered through the use of imagery. Along with the dark atmosphere, which seems to accompany every futuristic movie, their are also freaky creatures that pop up everywhere. These creatures serve as a warning to humans to not attempt to meddle with their bodies. The question of what it means to be human comes up when watching this trailer. We must learn to accept our own bodies, because when we mess with them, we may get something we really don't want, such as in Resident Evil.

Transformers: The Dark Side Of The Moon

                Transformers explores the idea of robots taking over the human race. This seems generic, but it's actually different than other robot domination movies, because these robots are also aliens. In the movie, these aliens try to take over the human race, while some of the robots protect us. I believe that the idea of our race being taken over is one that has much truth behind it. We, as a whole, are an ignorant and stubborn race. It is likely that when aliens show up in the future, we will anger them with threats or attacks, leading to the enslavement of our race. I believe that we'll never actually reach this point though, because we're wasting all of Earth's resources too quickly to last much longer.
               The director gets the idea of intergalactic war across through his use of imagery. All the explosions and the number of these aliens would cause one to think twice before ever purposely angering these creatures upon encountering them in the future. Even if there were few aliens, the sheer size of them would be terrifying. This serves as a warning to humans, who see Chicago in ruins in this movie. Don't mess with the aliens or they'll kick our butts.

Tron

                  In Tron, the government is exposed as a corrupt organization that host these immoral tournaments. To begin with, the government had the main character's father assassinated simply because his beliefs conflicted with the views of the country's major technology company. The company, in a way, resembles Apple. The government is then found to hold these contests of speed and strength where people put their lives on the line. The director is attempting to get a clear message to the audience. The message being that we can't toy with people's lives, no matter how powerful our government is. This would cause our civilization to backtrack and wind up like the ancient Romans and the coliseum where people had absolutely no morals.
                  The Director gets this theme across with all the dark imagery. The setting of the movie starts off in one place and switches a couple of times throughout the trailer. In all of the places that the trailer takes place in, all of them have this dark mien where everything simply seems to be wrong. The director does this to represent the lack of morality or light in this society. If we continue to forget the fact that we're all equal and that no government can thrive off of immorality, our future will be a dim and unhappy one.

I, Robot

              The ideas displayed in this trailer are ones of the negative aspects of future technology. In my opinion, humanity should never get too attached to technology, because this seems to be the major problem in 99% of all futuristic movies. The director shows this by building the idea of a perfect world, but then having a major mystery. The consequences that could come from these robots turning on humans could even be the extinction of the human race. In my opinion, we don't need to be exterminated as a species, but these robots clearly have different points of view than I do.
             The director gets this idea across with the plot's structure. This world is perfect and these robots are as well, but this man was still mysteriously murdered. If the man was killed by a robot, then all the robots have the potential to become killers. Also the dark lighting in each scene creates this somewhat gloomy and mysterious atmosphere that one would not expect in a perfect world. The director's message is clear. His message is don't become too dependent on technology or it will be our downfall.

1st Person Shooter

               This is a simple video made by some youtube user. The user made this as a parody of videogames such as Battlefield or Call Of Duty, but one might envision the future be something like this. This would fall under the category of future technology. In my opinion, this would be such a cool game if it was real, but similar to Gamer (the movie) one wouldn't be able to play as himself and would actually play as a convict or something. This idea could be useful in the beginning, but as demonstrated by the childlike qualities of this game, could eventually turn our idea of death into a joke.
               The creator gets this across with his video game like imagery. The idea of spawning and killing people for points comes from 1st person shooter games. Also the fact that the user is rewarded for killing people and not punished could contribute to the loss of morality. All this together creates a somewhat funny picture of what video games could be like in the future. These games seem to be harmless, but would slowly cause the decay of society due to it's violent and vivid gameplay.

Heroes

               In this short clip created by some youtube user, Heroes'  main theme is very clear. The show's creator is definitely attempting to warn the audience of the inequality that may be present in the future. In the show, several human beings have been granted special powers at a seemingly random choice. These individuals use their powers as seen fit and usually the use them for the greater good. These people soon become segregated by humanity, even though they've saved the world on several occasions.   Humans do this simply because they're scared of these people because they're different. The creator is showing that in the future, we'll have to watch out for injustice. People will likely segregate others simply out of fear of the unknown. This could come in the form of flying humans or even someone of a different ethnicity.
                The choice of language is really what gets this message across. The cheerleader use a powerful phrase saying "You made everyone afraid of us". Also the choice of words range from describing the world as a dark place to genocide. The author also uses powerful imagery such as the policeman betraying a man and shooting him in the chest. When these things combine with the dark tone of the trailer, one gets a very dim portrayal of is to come if humans don't learn to become more accepting.

Rachet & Clank

This video game is titled "Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time". The creator chose a very appropriate title since this game is based on the creator's vision of the future. In this future, aliens, robots, and evil run rampant. There's only two people willing to try and save the universe from falling apart. The world is being threatened by an evil robot who's attempting to cause a rip in the space time continuum. The creator is clearly trying to get a point across to society today. Humans have become far too advanced technologically, and soon our world will be run by machines. This is proven by these robots that are working for the greater evil. The overall effect is that we, as humans, need to stop trying to expand technology to it's limits. The world is not in need of robots for anything besides entertainment. Why risk being enslaved by technology for someone's personal entertainment? If we continue to explore technology at the rate that we are, we'll soon be living in a Terminator-like world, where machines tell humans what to do and refuse to give up control of the planet.

This video game advertisement uses a wonderful choice of imagery and language to get the creator's message to the audience. The clip is filled with sequences involving evil robots and explosions. Language is used to degrade the image of robots as well. The "Great Clock" is set up as the world's insurance plan. The narrator depicts the robots as evil machines attempting to destroy the universe. The imagery and language used instigates the audience to develop a resentment of these robots. The audience's minds can easily be manipulated by simply using darker words and imagery when trying to influence a person to dislike something. The future may eventually be over run by robots, but for the sake of humanity, I hope we have more than an unrealistic clock as our insurance plan.