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Alien Nation notes.

The premise of the film is similar to the base of my initial masters proposal.

The background of the story was established in the very opening scene of the film through the use of news reports and very similar to the thoughts that I have had for establishing the background for the universe in which my film will be based.

Scenes of aliens succumbing to the foibles of the human condition; robbery, shootings and heavy drinking (off-milk as opposed to alcohol).

The aliens had not been allowed to participate in the human law enforcement until the events of the film.

The aliens are simple – different head/’hair’ to humans (simple effective and mass producible makeup).

Real-world effects are used, not otherworldly – the film took place on earth – an alternate present.

The film introduced the ideas of simple things that humans take for granted which the aliens cannot process i.e. salt water.

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Inspiration/Reference points; 

The main inspiration/reference points that I pulled from watching this film was the style that the background to the story was prepared and presented to the audience. As I mentioned it is similar to some ideas that I have and watching this film proves that it would be an effective method in establishing the story's background. This is of course dependent upon the effective implementation of this technique and also the scenes that I select to include.

Also the politics of the intermixing the aliens into the human occupations was a very interesting story point.