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Lesson 2

• IMDb: Gravity (2013)

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Lesson 3

• Daily Mail online article about Cosplay 2015
• WikiHow Article: How to Be a Trekkie

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Lesson 4

• Trailer from The First Men in the Moon
• Virgin Galactic Website
• BBC Article: 'Why we might not be able to live on the Moon’

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Lesson 5

• Jupiter 2 as flown in Lost in Space showing real-size replicas of spaceships
• NASA website
• Building the Enterprise

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Lesson 6

• Institute of Physics article: 'Is Time Travel Possible?'

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Lesson 7

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Lesson 8

• The War of the Worlds: Radio Broadcast

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Lesson 9

• Alien characteristics generator
• Alien name generator
• Stephen Hawking’s article on alien life

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Lesson 10

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Lesson 11

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Lesson 12

• Opening of The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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Lesson 13

• The Telegraph article: 'Woolly mammoth could roam again as extinct DNA merged with elephant'

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Lesson 14

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Lesson 15

• The Distribution and Exhibition Process
• Rate a Trailer Activity
• FACT Website
• BBFC Classification Guidelines
• BBFC Rating Process

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Lesson 16

• IMDb: Bicentennial Man (1999)

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Lesson 17

• Back to the Future II trailer
• 15 things Back to the Future told us we’d have by 2015
• News of Future Newspaper

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Lesson 18

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Lesson 19

• Generating ideas

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Lesson 20

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Lesson 21

• How to Write a Screenplay
• Celtx Website

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Lesson 22

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Useful Links

When Science Fiction becomes Fact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ear4Prg9G8w

http://io9.com/all-the-times-science-fiction-became-science-fact-in-on-1570282491

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/7911939/The-science-fiction-that-turned-into-science-fact.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kasiagalazka/science-fiction-things-that-actually-exist-now#.dwmE0ZdKM

PublicDomain Sci-fi

https://archive.org/details/SciFi_Horror

Otherpublic domain

http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline

http://www.bnwmovies.com/genre/sci-fi  

Definitive IMDB SCI FI ‘public domain' films

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002037861/

VintageMovie Archive playlist

https://www.youtube.com/user/vintagemoviearchive/videos

IMDB List

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002037861/

Book with illustrations 1901

http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/HGWells/SciFi/TheFirstMenInTheMoon.html

BFI

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sci-fi-days-fear-wonder

The Future

Things to Come (1937) (HG Wells)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-31/15-things-back-to-the-future-told-us-wed-have-by-2015

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/women-film-sci-fi-edition-it-gets-dystopian

http://technopolis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/why-so-few-utopias-in-science-fiction.html

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0786457651

http://www.futuretimeline.net/

http://p10.hostingprod.com/@www.newsoffuture.com/

Mutations

The Science behind Jurassic Park (1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIoac7LuOak

The true story of Jurassic Park (History Channel) (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvw34o3ncB0

The Lost World (1925) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaXxY3citM

The Four Sided Triangle (1953) (cloning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmbgBlhaxV8

Global Warming

http://www.liveforfilms.com/2014/10/13/cinemas-most-spectacular-disaster-films/ [link no longer working]

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2826045209/

Jurassic Park

http://www.livescience.com/50275-bringing-back-woolly-mammoth-dna.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-06-11/business/9306110346_1_jurassic-park-dinosaur-park-marketers

Jurassic World’s Viral Marketing Campaign – Modern Techniques for a Prehistoric Promotion

http://www.masraniglobal.com/main.html

http://whatculture.com/film/10-best-movie-marketing-campaigns-ever

https://marketinginentertainment.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/jurassic-world-ad-campaign/

http://www.scified.com/site/jurassicworld/first-look-at-official-jurassic-world-lego-marketing-campaign [link no longer working]

Whole Campaign

http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/jurassic-world-2015#/slide/1

Robotics

http://io9.com/why-asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics-cant-protect-us-1553665410

Space Travel

First Spaceship on Venus (1960) Depiction of 1985

Flight to Mars (1951) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1wKjhED5M

Capricorn One (1977) Mars landing hoax

Star Crash (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hqcGK72XYQ

Genesis II (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxU4x2HKtMM

Red Planet Mars (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXYLCVUaCc

Space Probe Taurus (1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_R7LoJCR2E

Earth Star Voyager (1988) TV Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFF9sIT6jE

Trailer

Project Moonbase

First Man into Space (1959) trailer

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2c_rSLXq6U

Cat Women of the Moon (1953) (Female domination)

Star Trek

Klingonlanguage

http://www.kli.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/klingon.php

Trekkies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_fandom

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Trekkie

Alien Invasion

The Night America Trembled (1957) War of the WorldsBroadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeW30vLwds

Hangar 18(1980) UFOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirT6dUKfs0

The Flying Saucer (1950) https://youtu.be/-DEQ-a0C7U0

Not of this Earth (1957) https://youtu.be/dOejU6kJ02A[link no longer working]

Warning from Space (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6GHaU2Wuw[link no longer working]

UFO’s (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bGTLtdwPHM

Invasion USA (1952) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg8a9UMqSzY

Attack from Space (1964) Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9z_6thov0 [link no longer working]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) http://www.zappinternet.com/video/CoKmFezCin/Invasion+of+the+body+Snatchers+(1956)/

Catastrophe/NuclearThreat

The Last Man on Earth (1964) https://youtu.be/ZuPgXDWMB-Q

Without Warning (1994) TV Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9xMTA7qhZM

Meteor(1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LB0Ej2Gue4

Asteroid(1997) TV Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6KC_3XgBg

The Last Man on Earth (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPK5rYXeOV4

This is not a test (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-BeTuEOZg [link no longer working]

Time Travel

The Yesterday Machine (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6KXL6jyy4 [link no longer working]

The Time Machine 2002 playlist of clips https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7758E957AFF606B1

10 things about The Time Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNU7L7AATrk

Character/Setting Generator

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/humanoid.htm

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/planets-and-worlds.htm

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/spaceships.htm

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/retroaliennames.htm

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/plototron_sciencefiction.htm

http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/malfunctionmaker.htm

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/scifi-pattern-generator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_extraterrestrials

World Generator

http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/

Writing Sci-fi Plot

http://www.springhole.net/writing/create-better-fantasy-and-science-fiction-species.htm

http://www.scifiideas.com/alien-species-generator/

Sound

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/spaceshipNoiseGenerator.php

Movie Generator

http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html

Films

TCM Timeless Classic Movies (in full)

Films which will have been out by 2016, but not out yet!

http://www.itpro.co.uk/strategy/23755/10-biggest-sci-fi-films-of-2015

http://www.outerplaces.com/science-fiction/item/7513-29-sci-fi-movies-coming-to-theaters-in-2015

Film Posters

http://www.cinemacom.com/50s-sci-fi-BEST.html

http://www.cinemacom.com/50s-sci-fi-REST.html

http://www.freeclassicimages.com/Film_Posters.html

Research

https://www.intofilm.org/resources/980/bfi-sci-fi-iff-resource.pdf [link no longer working]

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sci-fi-days-fear-wonder

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sci-fi/sci-fi-days-fear-wonder-bfi-compendium

http://www.slideshare.net/mfleegler/science-fiction-11818153?related=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_science_fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_fandom

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/apollo-13.html

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-sci---fi-shed.html  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still

http://www.esfmedia.com/page/Wall-E+-+Ideology

http://www.slideshare.net/mattheworegan/lesson-2-star-theory

http://www.publishingcrawl.com/2012/04/17/how-to-write-a-1-page-synopsis/

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-06-01/sci-fi-taglines---the-film-quiz-has-landed

http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php

http://www.launchingfilms.info/

http://www.launchingfilms.info/step-step-guide/

http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/training/feds/thebiz

http://www.drawastickman.com/