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BEECHMOUNT
OCR G324 Advanced Production
NAME:GEORGIA HUDSONCANDIDATE NUMBER:4447
Aquinas College: 33435
BRIEF
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
By researching the history of soap operas and there conventions before we filmed, helped me understand what was involved with making our
final piece.
Conventions of soap operas...
•Film on a set not a location •Minimal makeup and ordinary clothes to make them look like the are apart ‘working class’. • costume to create a character. •Camera is a fourth wall (audience feel apart of the scene) • Big close ups on the actors faces to create emotion. Over the shoulder and shot reverse shots creates more of a intimate feel for the audience. •Disequilibrium in each episode to make the soap interesting to keep viewers.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Q1.
How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?Q1.
High angled shots
Panning
Low angled shot
What makes your trailer soap opera?Q1.
Establishing shot
Close up
Extreme close up
Q1.How does my soap use and conform to the conventions?
Natural lighting - having filmed in a dark rooms the lighting needed to be
bright and realistic.
Minimal makeup creates realism
Close ups reveal emotion
Q1.
Over the shoulder shot
Similarities and differences between my media product and a real media product.
SIMILARITIES
DIFFERENCES
• The music sets a tone to represent the mood and emotion of the soap.
• Fast editing to build tension
• Small amounts of dialogue so the story lines don’t confuse the audience
• Title cards to inform the audience what’s going on.
• Lighting sets an atmosphere
• Costume represents the characters and their status.
• Audience can relate to storylines.
• Every story line we have is dramatic
• We are a new soap so there for we need to gain the audiences attention.
Comparison
Q1. Comparison
By having the title cards it engages the audiences
attention, informs but doesn’t give too much of the story line
away.
As a group decided to have our trailer on e4. We studied the e4 style guide and came up with a
final title card which has the logo and the whole cast on it… similarr to’ made in Chelsea's’
final title card.
ComparisonQ1.
In our soap we decided to have a homosexual, who has decided to come out gay to his
brother. We stereotyped our ‘gay’ character by dressing him in woman’s clothes to
exaggerate his sexuality.
A woman's necklace
A feminine vest
Purple shinny leggings
Zebra print sofa expressing his eccentric style.
Creating a character
By understanding soap operas conventions we mocked them and made it into a characters
profile.
A take that tattoo
GARY
Gary couldn’t deal with his sexuality in the soap, he tries to take an overdose.
So we had our soap showing past the watershed
Drugs are quite shocking and wouldn’t be shown on a soap like Hollyoaks.
Q1.ComparisonCreating a character GARY
CHARLTONA cross dressing man in the soap
also mocked the alpha male status that you usually have in a soap. Going against the soap operas
conventions
Creating a charactersGary and downtown
are brothers Paris and Spenser
are engaged Roche and Spenser
are having an affair
Story Board
Charlton, Downton and Spenser are all friends.
Q1.
Parallel Narratives We used these characters storylines as the main features throughout the trailer.
ROCHE PARIS
SPENSER
Q1.
LOVE TRIANGLE
1.Creating tension through transitions
Transitions (black flashes) create a build up of tension throughout the trailer.
The soundtrack fitted well with the transitions it created more tension throughout the trailer.
Q1. Soundtrack
For the final trailer we used a song called ‘sweet disposition’ by The Temper Trap for
the soundtrack.
• The song genre is indie/rock which is aimed at our target audience - teens.
• The key of the song is in a D major which is the deepest (sad) of keys.
• It makes the audience know that the disequilibrium in the soap isn't going to be a happy upcoming episode.
• It starts slow building up tension and then starts to picks up paste. The drums kick in when it gets to the fast title cards at the end.
http://georgiahudsonsasmediablog.blogspot.com/
I used a website called blogger to upload my planning and documents that I had made during the process of making my soap opera ( audience research and my final trailer, billboard and magazine front cover)
Putting my work in order on my blog signifies in what order we did the work. It made it look professional and tidy.
This is how you upload a post the blog…
Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?