Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to study the perspectives, creation and inspiration of the producers of the X-Files audience' running for a year-long, had been broadcasted 202 episodes. Including a motion picture. It also includes science fiction theories and story-telling which create the narrative invention and aesthetics to the X-Files audience. In this research, the audience is categorized into two groups; professional audience and general audience. Ten participants of professional group are critics, guest writers for movie magazine, movie translators and movie/television crew. The demographic of 40 participants of general audience is 20 -60 year-old, male and female. Participants were questioned by completing questionairs sent via email. The results as following. 1. Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files, was inspired by documentary films, movies, and television suspense series that he admirely watched. He was also interested in paranormal phenomena and aliens which have been human interest and frequently broadcasted to public. 2. The narrative invention of The X-Files is mainly about a paranoid feeling people have towards the government. The story is told via two distinguish characters by combining storyarcs, which adds the scientific main plots more depths and easy understanding. Moreover, The X-Files uses science fiction theories as a technique to tell stories about conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena. 3. Reasons to watch the show and the aesthetics the audience get are the prominence of the production of the show and its intensity of the suspense revealed throughout the series via the conspiracies behind the government power. The storylines have been investigated and explored by two FBI agents whose potential chemistries have grown into relationship when time goes by