Original Space Operas

Students in Film History: Sci-Fi Cinema developed screenplay treatments, character biographies, and advertisement campaigns for original space operafilms.

Paula S.’s space opera, As Above, So Below, follows a Venusian biologist who is sent to earth to observe and study the evolved differences in the Earth people versus the Venusians. Unfamiliar with the advanced technology and unadapted to Earth’s environment, this proves to be difficult for the protagonist. As the protagonist adjusts to planet Earth, she quickly realizes that being reliant on this technology isn’t sustainable and changes need to be made.

Xan W.’s space opera, On a Grassless Globe, features a future in which the mining of asteroids and colonization of other planets has been made possible and families run hereditary industries like feudal lords. The Earth is now uninhabitable by the standards of those living on other worlds, empty of human habitation by Omni-Industrial decree. The planet is allowed to return to its natural state before the expansion of civilization as the torch of humanity is passed to the stars. Now that decree is being challenged by fundamentalist movements that wish to return to their ancestral homelands.

In Tristan S.’s space opera, A Spore In Space, the ambitious leader of the city “Lyra Prime” ventures into space to discover what’s out there and become a pioneer for his people, only to discover the harsh reality that he is no longer at the top of everything, and then has to find his purpose in life. For his advertisement campaign, Tristan created this movie poster.