This is an uninterrupted image with a single static framing.
What is a shot?
A causal loop diagram consists of several components, including variables, arrows to denote how the variables are interconnected and this, which describe the directional change of the variables.
What is Polarity (Plus (+) and minus (-) signs)?
This is the term for a code of ethics, coined by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov and including the command: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
What are the Three Laws of Robotics?
In this film, the main character's DNA was mixed with that of some nearby neighbors, causing their phenotypical traits to eventually resemble their other-worldly counterparts.
What is District 9?
They are a Sandman whose job it is to terminate Runners.
Who is Logan?
A shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects and setting in a scene.
What is an establishing shot?
This is another name for the reinforcing feedback loop shown below that can generate an exponential data curve.
What is a positive feedback loop?
This is the term for a type of story (usually in science fiction) that involves the spread of diseases, as in World War Z.
What is an outbreak narrative?
The bizarre weather in this film was caused by a climatic shift in the earth’s temperature, leading to a change in the Great Ocean Conveyor belt, seen here.
What is The Day After Tomorrow?
This character once spent their days cleaning up trash on earth.
Who is Wall-E?
A camera movement with the camera body turning to the right or left on a stationary pod.
What is panning?
The following correct and incorrect causal loop diagrams (CLD) shown here demonstrate the reason why CLDs should be drawn only to depict causal relationships, not these types of relationships.
What is correlative; correlation?
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness,” she writes that: “science fiction is not [BLANK]; it is descriptive.”
What is predictive?
Don’t worry about getting sick here! In this film, residents of prestige can efficiently get rid of unhealthy cells, while regenerating healthy ones to beat almost any disease in their at-home chambers. They can basically live forever!
What is Elysium?
This protagonist lives in a marginal community beyond a levee. They lost their mother at an early age and is concerned with their father's health.
Who is Hushpuppy?
A camera movement with the camera body moving up or down on a stationary pod.
What is tilting?
One or more causal loop diagrams organized together like the one shown below may be referred to as this.
What is a systems diagram?
This is a term for speculative fiction with elements of fantasy, like spirits or spell-casting, and that Beasts of the Southern Wild might fall into.
What is magical realism?
In this film, an unexplainable ailment caused women’s uteri to no longer be able to carry births to full-term. Eventually no zygotes could form at all. In the book, the ailment affected male sperm.
What is Children of Men?
This protagonist has to work virtually in the United States in order to earn a living.
Who is Memo?
All the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: the setting and props, lighting, costume and make-up, and figure behavior.
What is mise-en-scene?
Based on the following S.I.R example of a causal loop diagram shown here, the maximum value of the susceptible population refers to this.
What is the initial value/number of susceptible individuals (So)?
This is the term in science fiction for a scientifically plausible concept that is a “reality” in the story—like the medical bay in Elysium or the self-sustaining spaceship in Wall-E.
What is novum?
In this short film, genetically-modified corn rotted both on the stalk and in petri dishes. Corn grown in more organic ways ended up saving the day!
What is The Sixth World?
This protagonist is part of a new breed of human beings who are immune to a zombie virus.
Who is Melanie?