Humans 

Key scene - First two minutes of the first episode ('Buying Anita')

Genre codes and conventions

genre theory 
  •  Genre theory - Steve Neale 

genre fluidity 
  • Referential codes relating to numerous sci-fi films, including 2001 and Blade runner
  • Extreme focus on the eye, opening shot was on the eye, eyes determine the difference between the robot or humanity. 

camera work 
  • Many low shots, showing her feet and her very feminine shoes. 
  • Close up shots of unzipping, short cut shots of her eyes, to create stigma and prolong the revealing of her. 
lighting and colour
  • Very bleak but very clean
  • Use of artificial light, suggests these artificial robots
  • Lack of natural light, comparison to the scene where Anita is so fixated on the moon.
  • Cold, blue colours connoting unnaturalness and creating a creepy atmosphere.  

editing - pace, type of edits, continuity
  • Very fast moving scenes - demonstrating how fast things are being developed 

narrative construction, related to narrative theory


sound - dialogue, music
  • Her voice has lack of emotion and express, very digital 
  • Still very innocent and Feminine voice, very stereotypical
  • Noise when she is switched on
  • Lack of natural sound in the opening moments, opposed by the room full of naked robots - shocks the audience and their perception of what they've expected to see. 

mise-en-scene -setting and location, props, costume/makeup  
  • Set is outskirts of London, ahead in technology, The children are used to technology - opening scene of both of them sitting in the same room both on tablets.
  • The makeup on the robots is very minimal, and plain to convey there is not much differentiation between them, no identity. 
  • stereotypical white english family 

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