Research for #1 question of CCR post

 Question 1# How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?

- Start by discussing genre conventions, cite where you found this information

- Next, discuss which genre conventions you chose to challenge or discuss why you chose not to challenge genre conventions

- End with a discussion of representation, remember representation refers to the choices you made and how you made them

 Common sci-fi genre conventions are

-  High-tech gear 

- Space travel

- Utopias or dystopias of the future 

- Robot characters 

- Aliens

- Interstellar travel

- Extensive world-building 

We choose to challenge the genre conventions of having aliens, space travel, or extensive world-building. The reason being we want to portray a dystopian world in the future that has not changed that drastically from right now, because they live in poverty. It explores that because Owen is not as well off as the settings she lives in are dated. 

For this opening, we wanted to portray poverty and what that might look like in the future. Owen is currently in 2037, yet her world doesn't look like it's changed drastically because it's in the future. The reason being we intentionally wanted it not to look different from currently to show that people who live in poverty tend to live in more dated houses and communities. We wanted Owen to have a gender neutral name leaning towards masculine to show that she is in a male-dominated industry. Currently, 43.1% of all scientists are women and 56.9% are men. In 2037, the ratio is still more males than females, and not just in her field, but stem jobs in general.

Citations 

Hellerman, J. (2023, December 6). Deconstructing the science fiction genre in movies and TV. No Film School. https://nofilmschool.com/science-fiction-genre

Zippia. (n.d.). Scientist jobs demographics and statistics in the US. Zippia. https://www.zippia.com/scientist-jobs/demographics/