First Draft of Soap Opera Trailer

Outtakes of First Draft of Soap Opera Trailer

Hazards

My Animatic

Interviews

Narratives Seen So Far

1) Kristi cheats on her boyfriend Steven with his bestfriend Ricky.
2) Grace and Bens dad has been murdered (Numurous suspects)
3) Grace starts rebeling from college and starts drinking and doing drugs.
4) Kristi becomes pregnant and she doesn't know who the father is.

Casting

Here is a list of the following people I chose to cast and who their character will be:

Kristi McGowan, 20 Carer/Student
Kristi's character has one of the main story lines which would start the soap opera. She is a student with a boyfriend who she cheats on. Kristi then finds out she is pregnant but doesn't know who the father is.

Steven Parker, 20 Student
Steven's character is Kristi McGowan's boyfriend. So far there is no big story line for Steven other then that he may not be the father of Kristi's unborn child.

Ricky Atkins, 21 Bartender
Ricky is a close friend of Steven but goes behind Steven's back and gets with Kristi. Ricky is the other possible dad.

Grace Moxon, 18 Student
Grace's character is the second big story line to be seen in the soap opera trailer. Grace's father has been murdered and she struggles to deal with not knowing who killed him. Grace becomes depressed and binges on alcohol and starts doing drugs. If this was to continue, Grace would then get off the alcohol and drugs and find out who killed her father.

Rob Moxon 24 Shop worker
Rob is Grace's brother, Rob and Grace are quite close and Rob decides he needs to help Grace get off the alcohol and drugs and deal with her grief in a more appropriate way.

Marley Welburn, 18 Student
Marley's character is also a student and good friends with Kristi and Grace. Marley has a long term boyfriend who she is happily in love with and would do anything for. She gets engaged to Ashley but is she too young? Will it happen?

Ashley Cooper, 20 Student
Ashley is Marley's boyfriend. They have been together for a while and in the soap opera you see he proposes to Marley. Marley says yes and everything seems happy in the soap opera trailer but could their be a secret Ashley is hiding?

Daisy Wheeldon, 19 Hairdresser
Daisy's character isn't seen in the soap opera trailer much as I didn't want to have too many characters as it could confuse the audience. However, to show there would be more story lines and more people I included Daisy's character.

Laura Cooke, 18 Student
Laura is also not seen much as I wanted to include other characters faces to give the audience a feel of what the soap opera would be like. Laura is a friend of Grace who also tries to get her off alcohol and drugs. However, Laura knows who murdered Grace's father.

Alan Cartwright, 61 Lanlord
Alan, is shown in the soap opera trailer a little bit as I wanted to create a mysterious effect of this character. Who is he and could he be a suspect of Grace's fathers death?

Research for Poster (Examples of TV Posters)

From looking at TV posters I have found out that the TV posters do not include much information a part from the title of the show, the date it starts and the time, and the TV Channel it will be on. This has helped me as I didn't know what to include on my poster at first.

My Audience

The Songs I'm Going to Use for My Soap Opera Advert

 

Evaluation (Still Finishing This)

In groups of four, we were set a task to re-create at least thirty seconds of a music video. Our group decided to reconstruct the first 30 seconds of Labrinth’s single ‘Treatment’. We discussed and decided who we would use as our actors and which job would be allocated to whom. We then created a production plan clarifying which locations we would use and also what props we would need. As well as how we could reconstruct the correct type of lighting and what shots we would need (cinematographically related) My role was to do part of the camera work and scene setting within the theatre. Grace and I did half the filming in her house and I helped with the editing. Javanna’s role was mainly to be in charge of scene setting and lights co-ordinator when filming in the theatre and also help with editing. Sydney’s role was to do part of the camera work and to be the main director when filming in the theatre. Sydney also helped out with lighting at Grace’s house and helped with editing.

Most of the filming was done at Grace’s house on the night before the deadline day as we realised our previous filming was useless. There were no outtakes, instead we decided to film throughout the whole process and just edit the parts we wanted out of the recordings. This is a mistake I have learned from as when I do my moving media text I am going to be more organised and get the shots I need with some outtakes.

Final Reconstruction of Media Text (Treatment

Diary

Day 1 Monday 1st October

We started to record the close up shots of our artist for the thirty seconds we have decided to reconstruct. We managed to record the shots successfully and we now need to create the setting and the other members of the cast walking within the shots.

 

Day 2 Tuesday 2nd October

We recorded the walking shots within the thirty seconds of the reconstruction, however this hasn't been as successful as we haven't got all of our team together. We have kept the recordings to use as an example of how we would like these shots to look like. We also need to think of clothing and also the props needed to create a realistic reconstruction of the video.

Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a media text

Group members

Grace Moxon (Editor) http://gracemoxona2media.blogspot.co.uk/

Paige Windley (Camerawork) http://a2mediastudiespaigewindley.blogspot.co.uk/

Sydney Baggaley (Director) http://sydneymariex.blogspot.co.uk/

Javanna Duell (Producer) http://javannamarie.blogspot.co.uk/

Cast

Ricky Atkins (Artist actor)

Grace Moxon (extra)

Paige Windley (extra)

Sydney Baggaley (extra)

Javanna Duell (extra)

Storyboard chosen

Labrinth - treatment storyboard (first 30 seconds into the video)

Times and days

Sydney and Javanna

Thursday first period

Friday 3rd period

Chris, Sydney, Javanna, Paige and Grace

wednesday last period

 Grace, Paige and Sydney

Thursday 3rd periodTuesday and Friday afternoons

Props:

Shelfs

Instruments

Microphone

Mic Stand

Big mirror

Lights

Chairs

Clothes Rail

 

Set:

Green Room in media department

Drama Theatre

Classrooms (W1 & W2)

Equipment needed

Type of camera for filming - HD

Camera equipment (movable holders)

Lights (spotlights) from media department

Costumes

Ricky

Black coat/jacket

Diamond earring (diamonte temporarily glued on ear)

Black vest top

Deadline - 11th Oct

Skills Development Essay

 Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of their Foundation Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require you to detail specific production practises. The list of practises is as follows:

-          Digital Technology

-          Creativity

-          Research and Planning

-          Post-Production

-          Using conventions from real media texts

Last year, for our Foundation Portfolio we started with a Preliminary exercise using DTP and an image manipulation programme, we had to produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally we also had to produce a mock-up layout of the contents page to demonstrate our grasp of DTP.

Our main task was to create a front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. We had to think about the language, the institution, the ideology, the audience and the representation in detail and had to do market research for 3 magazines that had a similar genre to what we had chosen ourselves. We had to think about our target audience and price and publishing. We had to do a digital mock-up and produce lots of drafts to improve on our final products.

Through-out the year we did lots of work on the conventions of TV drama by looking at the Mise en Scene, the editing, the sound and the cinematography. This helped prepare us for the exam at the end of the year. We did numerous of essays which helped as revision and a guideline to what sort of things we needed to write about and know in the exam.

Before I started AS Media Studies I had some skills of how to use photo shop. These where very basic however and I developed my skills in using photo shop further and increased my knowledge of specific things I could do to improve my front cover as my first front cover draft was very basic compared to my final draft.  Before AS Media I worked for a non-paying student based company called ‘Up the Volume’ which included filming bands live and taking photos. We also got to interview them. This gave me some skills in using digital technology and how to get a good photo whilst a band played live. This helped with my Foundation Portfolio as it gave me a rough idea of what type of music magazine I was going to create and how I wanted it to look. This meant my creativity was improving as I had lots of ideas running through my head. This was very fortunate as I already had some great photos that could be included in my music magazine which was an advantage, alongside new ones that I took of individuals that I made up were in a band.  I enjoy reading magazines so I knew quite a lot of conventions from real media texts and magazines. This was a good skill to have how to analyse a magazine because it meant I knew the conventions I needed to include to make my magazine look professional.

My skills developed in the Foundation Portfolio when using photo shop as I made lots of drafts. I learned the more I used digital technology the more things I learned and discovered. I had very basic knowledge of how photo shop worked and how to edit photos to look more professional. My skills developed with text on photo shop as I learned how to make the text more bold and professional. I also learned that using fonts from photo shop was better than finding a jazzy font on a website as you could make the text look the way you wanted and look by making the outer layer thicker and putting the letters closer together and not so far apart. My creative skills developed as I learned having a house theme worked better and looked more appropriate.

Research and planning helped with my Foundation Portfolio as I developed skills on how to research specific aspects and make sure my information was correct. Planning helped with my organisation skills as It made sure that I was up to date with dead line dates and also knew what I was doing and what stage I was at.

In my post-production I created lots of drafts. The first draft looked completely different from my final draft which shows I improved on my digital technology skills and developed them further. I had a vague idea of what the music magazine would like for my final draft which made me improve every time and reach my goal of how I wanted my music magazine to look.

In conclusion, my skills developed in creativity, digital technology, research and planning and using conventions of real media texts which can be seen in my post-production outcome. They developed because I spent a lot of time researching and planning on how I wanted my media products to look and how I could get them to look professional. My skills developed hugely in digital technology as I now know lots more about photo shop and how to use it then what I did at the start as I didn’t know to edit photos of texts on photo shop. My creativity skills developed as I made lots of drafts and wanted to improve them every time as I had lots of inspiration and idea’s in my head from analysing three different media texts. Looking at magazines and noticing the conventions. From looking at magazines and realising my product didn’t include a certain convention which I liked I would include it into my media product.

This Summer

This Summer I did a story board of the advert for the soap opera Hollyoaks titled 'Check Out the New Talent'.

Audience Key Terms
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Demographic data
Phychographic data

The Brief

3. A promotion package for a new soap opera, to include a TV trailer, together with two of the following three options:

- a listings magazine front cover featuring the new soap

- two hyper linked webpages (with video extract) for the soap's website

- a poster for the soap