WJEC Eduqas GCSE Film Studies sample

1. What do you like or dislike about the alien creatures in District 9? 2. What else, apart from their human-like form and face, makes them more acceptable to us than aliens in other films? 3. Blomkamp describes the aliens as worker bees with a hive mentality. Does this remind you of many immigrants to the UK who come here to work? Do you think this is another comment on society? 4. e aliens were all played by one actor in a trackball suit and every other alien in the film (apart from those on the medical lab tables) were CGI. Why do you think it was decided that the aliens would be realised in CGI rather than the bodysuits originally planned? 5. e prop of the cat food (the aliens’ favourite food) was based on Blomkamp’s memories from his childhood when he would see people selling cheese snacks out of huge sacks to the impoverished. He wanted the aliens to have a similar cheap food. But what does the choice of cat food make you think about the aliens? Task 4.5 Acting the alien ( District 9 ). Baby calls for his father ( District 9 ). 192 GCSE Film Studies