I’m so glad I’ve found your channel, these small documentaries about Doctor Who exploring things no other videos have are so niche and great! You need more subs, man
Thank you so much. I definitely strive to make the videos I personally want to see on the topics I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere. Glad my channel has scratched that itch for you
When I first watched through classic Doctor Who DVDs on a portable 14" CRT combi, I found that reducing the brightness by half makes a lot of stories more palatable - especially "Warriors of the Deep" which has a similar "big green thing shuffling through bright white corridors" aesthetic.
The Ark in Space, The Seeds of Doom and Planet of the spiders were the three Dr Who stories that freaked me out as kid. I use to watch Dr Who and Space 1999 almost religiously back in the 70's. I also remember seeing ALIEN in the theatre back in '79. As for what inspired ALIEN its basically a mash up of Mario Bavas Planet of the Vampires from 1965 and the 1958 film It The Terror From Beyond Space. Sure they added a few touches of their own but its basically these two movies mixed together. As for Predator it was inspired by an early 80's film called Without Warning. In which Kevin Peter Hall also played the Alien hunter. Nice to see that old footage of Ark in Space. Here in Australia Dr Who was an early evening staple in the mid to late 70's. Brings back a lot of memories.
Both are very similar in premise to the short story "Black Destroyer" by A. E. van Vogt. A single creature picking off proragonists with the goal of saving it's species.
@@TBowenMedia Check if your video editing software has sound meters. Then once you're happy with your visual edit, just go back through watching what the meters are doing. You want them pretty consistent throughout, so just increase/decrease each clip as required. My only other tip is colour grading. Again depending what software you are using... but even really simple basic colour grading can really just help a video to pop. Making the blacks blacker, and checking your skin tones. (uni film student... and UA-camr for 15 years til WB killed my channels...)
there is also a sci fi film from the 50s with many startling similarities to Alien which Doctor Who may have picked up on .Right now the name of the film escapes me
Actually the biggest influence of Alien is It the Terror from beyond and Mario Bavas Planet of Vampires (especially in the dark horse origin script to Comic)
The doctor has been ripped off left right and center .Vr?Tom baker fights a bad guy in a virtual world or gravel pit...The borg ??Doctor who and the Cybermen decades before Star Trek.Often you can look back ans seee oh shit the Doctor did it first .Ok on my mums weekly food budget and with dogy sets and effects but the concepts and imagination.Og Doctor Who.
Hilariously the making-of documentary on the DVD for The Deadly Assassin is called ‘The Matrix Revisited’ as a nod to the film and its documentary. To answer your question, I don’t think so. The Matrix wasn’t the first work to explore the idea of simulated reality and although it popularised the idea, the Wachowskis also drew heavily on the works of Grand Morrison and anime. I’m not sure Doctor Who would really be on their radar in the nineties having been off the air for the whole decade bar the TV movie.
Boo Who! The reboot of Dr Who has certainly made up for anyone who may have been inspired by it. New Who is a massive exercise in plagiarism. As I view shows and movies I have not seen before I often say to myself “Dr Who did that”, then realise what I’m watching came first. Plagiarism Schmagiarism .
Btw. I watched Alien on its original cinema release. One good scene but otherwise totally forgettable. I gave the sequels a miss. Caught up with them later on but couldn’t be bothered sitting them out. Boring. And unsexy.
I always think "So.....Tom Baker."
You and me both man
...and after this we get the Dr Who/ John Carpenter's The Thing Remake Conspiracy... All Fun Stuff.
I’m so glad I’ve found your channel, these small documentaries about Doctor Who exploring things no other videos have are so niche and great! You need more subs, man
Thank you so much. I definitely strive to make the videos I personally want to see on the topics I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere. Glad my channel has scratched that itch for you
When I first watched through classic Doctor Who DVDs on a portable 14" CRT combi, I found that reducing the brightness by half makes a lot of stories more palatable - especially "Warriors of the Deep" which has a similar "big green thing shuffling through bright white corridors" aesthetic.
Do you also want to mention the fact Ridley created a character called 'Elizabeth Shaw' for Prometheus? 🤔
@@minicle426 always wondered if that was a direct reference to Doctor Who.
The Ark in Space, The Seeds of Doom and Planet of the spiders were the three Dr Who stories that freaked me out as kid. I use to watch Dr Who and Space 1999 almost religiously back in the 70's. I also remember seeing ALIEN in the theatre back in '79. As for what inspired ALIEN its basically a mash up of Mario Bavas Planet of the Vampires from 1965 and the 1958 film It The Terror From Beyond Space. Sure they added a few touches of their own but its basically these two movies mixed together.
As for Predator it was inspired by an early 80's film called Without Warning. In which Kevin Peter Hall also played the Alien hunter. Nice to see that old footage of Ark in Space. Here in Australia Dr Who was an early evening staple in the mid to late 70's. Brings back a lot of memories.
Both are very similar in premise to the short story "Black Destroyer" by A. E. van Vogt. A single creature picking off proragonists with the goal of saving it's species.
Great video, well researched, and thought out. Check your sound levels, but otherwise - really good vid.
Thanks. Sound mixing and levels are my biggest challenge at the moment. Really need to improve in that area
@@TBowenMedia Check if your video editing software has sound meters. Then once you're happy with your visual edit, just go back through watching what the meters are doing. You want them pretty consistent throughout, so just increase/decrease each clip as required.
My only other tip is colour grading. Again depending what software you are using... but even really simple basic colour grading can really just help a video to pop. Making the blacks blacker, and checking your skin tones.
(uni film student... and UA-camr for 15 years til WB killed my channels...)
there is also a sci fi film from the 50s with many startling similarities to Alien which Doctor Who may have picked up on .Right now the name of the film escapes me
Actually the biggest influence of Alien is It the Terror from beyond and Mario Bavas Planet of Vampires (especially in the dark horse origin script to Comic)
Fantastic, detailed analysis. Some nice jokes, too. Top stuff.
Cheers Jack. Did a lot of research for this and glad that shined through for you.
The doctor has been ripped off left right and center .Vr?Tom baker fights a bad guy in a virtual world or gravel pit...The borg ??Doctor who and the Cybermen decades before Star Trek.Often you can look back ans seee oh shit the Doctor did it first .Ok on my mums weekly food budget and with dogy sets and effects but the concepts and imagination.Og Doctor Who.
Yay, at last!
It's funny how the Doctor seemingly forgot about the existence of Alien. 10 knows it but 12 doesn't.
There's a horror movie named alien?
That's really offensive no wonder you keep gutting invaded
How did the 10th doctor know of Alien when the 12th doctor was oblivious to it?
@@samuelbastable2002Some people forget stuff over the spam of a few years, let alone over 1.300 years
@@gabrielandriel8960 Reasonable explanation there
Gutting?
lol the autogenerated closed captioning softens the word "alien" to "foreign."
So... Did the Matrix rip off Doctor Who?
Hilariously the making-of documentary on the DVD for The Deadly Assassin is called ‘The Matrix Revisited’ as a nod to the film and its documentary.
To answer your question, I don’t think so. The Matrix wasn’t the first work to explore the idea of simulated reality and although it popularised the idea, the Wachowskis also drew heavily on the works of Grand Morrison and anime. I’m not sure Doctor Who would really be on their radar in the nineties having been off the air for the whole decade bar the TV movie.
Boo Who!
The reboot of Dr Who has certainly made up for anyone who may have been inspired by it.
New Who is a massive exercise in plagiarism.
As I view shows and movies I have not seen before I often say to myself “Dr Who did that”, then realise what I’m watching came first.
Plagiarism
Schmagiarism
.
Btw.
I watched Alien on its original cinema release. One good scene but otherwise totally forgettable. I gave the sequels a miss. Caught up with them later on but couldn’t be bothered sitting them out. Boring. And unsexy.