OCR G324Advanced Production

Matthew Tildesley Candidate Number: 4891 Aquinas College: 33435

The Grove

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Soap forms and convention

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Camera as the fourth wall.

Big close up to show emotions.

On a set, not on a location.

Casual clothes (costume) creates realism.

¾ storylines in trailers and storylines : Keeps the viewers interested and allows the multiple to be spread across multiple episodes.

POV over shoulder shots : involves the audience, makes them feel like they are there, experiencing the characters emotions.

Multiple main characters : Allows for multiple parallel narratives and convergence. Keeps the audience interested.

storylinesVarious different storylines are used to make the trailer more interesting.

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editing• I started my trailer with the main storyline scene to instantly grab the audiences attention, the car crash but I decided to show the events following up to it. • As the trailer continues, we continued to get outrageous images of death and conflict between the characters•My trailer was slow and steady but also was not to slow to give everything away.

LightingWe used natural lighting to give our soap a natural look.The natural lighting also helped make the soap look realistic.We did however use the night effect when editing this was to make the scene look as though it is dark and creates a negative atmosphere.

Low Angle shots create the effect of the audience watching the person. Mostly used to show weakness or peering over someone's shoulder.

Low angle shot of the phone adds emphasis to the importance of it.

Use of not having the characters face in shot creates the mystery of a ‘who done it scenario?’

Two Shot establishes connections between two characters usual used to show characters that are in relationships.

Arm over the shoulder shows comforting nature of the character.The clothing and hair show the characters stereotype and gives them identity

This shot shows how the characters are connected but that there is something going on between them with the expression of the actors

Use of costumes and props emphasise characters stereotypical appearance and style.

We also decided to use phones as a way to express and relate to the intended audience as the audience will usually have access to this technology.

The use of having a close up of the phone adds tension as sometimes cause we can not see who is holding the phone or whose it is.

Phones were a great way to show how the soap reflects everyday life as it is available to everyone.

We used this shot from a Eastenders episode as it was effective to show the character in the car as if we were stood right next to them empathising the crash

I decided to use the song ‘Broken’ by Seether featuring Amy Lee as the tone of the song fitted my trailer but also the use of having the male and female singer added impact to the trailer due to the main storylines of love.