From my research i have discovered that the medias portrays the future as being very dystopian and dangerous, Everyone seems to have machines connected to them at all time that are used for fighting or they are all barely surviving in a dangerous environment with either humans killing each other or aliens/ robots have sided against them. Examples of this can be seen above in examples such as terminator, oblivion, GI JOE or After Earth however there are few exceptions such as WALL-E where even then it tries to teach us a lesson. They all seem to be engrossed in technology that will assist them when in combat. There are also 2 ends to the colour spectrum which is either very bright with a lot of blue to highlight the technology or in contrast they are dark and simple take the Matrix or Men in Black as an example where black is a costume theme or the lighting is dark to create shadows and indicate how the future is dark and sinister. I found that what works particularly well in future based films or games is this violent world as there are clear missions and intrigues the audience as there is an interest in new 'cool' or outrageous weapons, this also allows for the audiences imagination to come to life with gadgets that allow flight and memory loss which there is likely hood we wont be around to actually see happen although there are only a few Utopian based futures, they are also good as they allow for cool technology to be used so what they all have in common is their aim to please the audience with exciting action.
